Vesper Miles has been fighting demons for too long. Grief, injury, alcoholism. She has become a self-loathing masochist who allows spirits to harm her. And she's getting worse. Everyday is a battle of answering the question of why she bothers remaining on our plane. Her mother can't answer that question, she has no friends to confide in. Vesper is truly alone and the only thing she has is the job. And the job has become increasingly difficult over the past few years. Not because her leg was turned into a shattered piece of glass. It's not the sudden emergence of deadly spirits, more and more each year. It's because her last failure attracted something from her past...many lifetimes ago. You see, her failure was a reincarnation of the god Prometheus and he iced the goddess of chaos. And now something worse has come home to string her up, as battered and bloodied as he can, to torture a friend she couldn't save from Eris's final curse. Who is this mysterious smoke monster? Why has it invaded her dreams and physical reality? Vesper must find out who she really is and, with the help of a few new friends, put down an ancient evil for good.
Vesper Miles has been fighting demons for too long. Grief, injury, alcoholism. She has become a self-loathing masochist who allows spirits to harm her. And she's getting worse. Everyday is a battle of answering the question of why she bothers remaining on our plane. Her mother can't answer that question, she has no friends to confide in. Vesper is truly alone and the only thing she has is the job. And the job has become increasingly difficult over the past few years. Not because her leg was turned into a shattered piece of glass. It's not the sudden emergence of deadly spirits, more and more each year. It's because her last failure attracted something from her past...many lifetimes ago. You see, her failure was a reincarnation of the god Prometheus and he iced the goddess of chaos. And now something worse has come home to string her up, as battered and bloodied as he can, to torture a friend she couldn't save from Eris's final curse. Who is this mysterious smoke monster? Why has it invaded her dreams and physical reality? Vesper must find out who she really is and, with the help of a few new friends, put down an ancient evil for good.
