this collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics the cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection for instance introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives these are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the mesmerizing fiction of thomas ligotti mc president rochlan rock north finally has everything hes ever wanted hope as his ol lady and his mc earning money while staying out of trouble the only thing left is to make hope his wife but as their wedding day nears an old adversary threatens rocks freedom the wedding and throws the lost kings mc into chaoswhile the club waits for rocks fate to be decided wrath has to balance solidifying his new relationship with trinity and fulfilling his presidents orders