“Men go and come, but Earth abides.”— Ecclesiastes 1:4 Decades after “The Blight” all but wiped out the human race, Mother Nature is taking back what’s hers, and she’s not alone…The Hinterkind have returned. From the last, lost corners of the world they come, a myriad menagerie of myth and magic...but these aren't childhood fairytale creatures. They are flesh, blood and passion, and they have a long-simmering hatred for those who drove them into the shadows: The human race! After her grandfather disappears, Prosper Monday must leave the security and seclusion of their Central Park village to venture into the wilds to find him, unaware of how much the world has changed. Or how hungry it has become…

Princess Tersia has a vision of the future and the shape of things to come. She’s married to Jon Hobb and carrying his baby. Oh, and there’s a dragon! Is it a dream or a nightmare? Meanwhile, bounty hunters Starla and Jubal find the tables are turned as they’re run to ground by a Centaur posse.

Intrigue in the Sidhe Palace gets nasty as Princess Tersia makes a grab for power. Meanwhile, Jon Hobb takes a vampire balloon ride while Prosper makes a mysterious new "friend."

Step back in time to before the deadly plague that almost wiped out mankind took hold. From the streets of New York to the boulevards of Paris, the beginning of the end starts here as the Sidhe prepare to unleash their long-awaited revenge.

The human race didn't get a happily ever after. After 300,000 years at the top of the food chain, it took only seven months for humanity to become an endangered species. The Blight killed nearly everyone, and changed everything. As skyscrapers sprouted forests and wild animals took over the deserted streets, the planet's new rulers emerged from their age-old hiding places: elves and trolls, faeries and fauns, centaurs and satyrs—all the forgotten races behind countless myths and legends returned to reclaim the world they had lost to mankind. Now, in a tiny village tucked away in what was once Manhattan's Central Park, two rebellious teenagers are about to discover the true nature of the world beyond their small island home—as well as the unseen menace that threatens both human and Hinterkind alike.