Ten years after the disappearance of his beloved uncle, seventeen-year-old Peter Loneheart seldom has worries beyond high school and girls within his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia. The life he knows, however, is soon torn away from him the day he meets the man adrift between worlds. When Peter is cast into a new world, he must confront the boy within as he faces armies of undead, political strife, assassins, beautiful women, and an evil as old as the universe itself.