Carter's a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It's also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster.
When a murder investigation goes sour, Carter finds himself undermined by corrupt coworkers and staring at a suspect list that includes half the city’s elite. Carter has no choice but to find the killer before the investigation turns into a witch-hunt and those closest to him pay the ultimate price on the filthy streets of Titanshade.
Titanshade pulses with nervous energy. Power players jostle for position while workers go hungry. And in an alley, a gruesome discovery: the mutilated body of a immigrant, so little-regarded that not even her lovers bothered to learn her name.
Detective Carter single-mindedly pursues the killer as he navigates political pressures and a mobster’s threats. But when more innocent lives are lost and time runs short, he's forced to decide if justice is worth sparking an all-out street war during the biggest celebration of the year: Titan's Day.
With the return of spring, new life floods into Titanshade. The sun climbs higher and stays longer, the economy is ascendant, and ever more newcomers arrive to be part of the city's rebirth. Even pop culture has taken notice, with a high-profile concert only days away. When a band member's murder threatens to delay the show, the diva star performer demands that the famous Detective Carter work the case. But Carter has secrets of his own, and his investigation unearths more victims and dark secrets, triggering a spiral of deceit, paranoia, and nightmarish magical transformations.
As conspiracies are exposed, Carter is sucked even deeper into the machinations of the rich, the powerful, and the venerated. Soon the very foundations of the city threaten to collapse and Carter's own freedom is on the line as he navigates between old enemies and fragile new alliances while racing to learn the true cause of this horrific series of deaths.