A riveting tale of a cursed man trying to conquer his haunted past that captures the elements of surrealism, supernaturalism and the sensations of passion, terror, awe and strange beauty that defined the gothic horror subgenre. Caleb Hartford is a wounded veteran of the Lowry War, coming to grips with his past; the death of his brother, the atrocities he committed to survive, and the rage born of his grief. Along his path to atonement, we uncover horror and dark deeds that contrast with the honest husband and father he is now, and at the end, a bittersweet redemption. \—————————————————— The Lowry War was a bloody civil war in the Lowland that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands over the two years it was waged. Once, it was a war built on lofty ideals and the blood of martyrs, but it became something that could be controlled by neither god, king, nor man. Something that devoured everything in its path and led man to a wasteland where their unburied sons littered the ground like fallen leaves in autumn. In that miserable struggle, humanity found itself capable of sins and unnatural transgressions uncountable, but not unnoticed. It left Caleb Hartford wounded both in body and mind. Nearly twenty years later, he finds himself dogged by a terrible beast called a god in some places in the world, and a devil in others. Now, as a successful farmer with a loving family, he must find a way to reap what he has sown without letting it taint his wife and children.