The book begins with the onset of a mysterious shadow and proceeds with attempts to explore its meaning and potential threat. It also attempts to explore the darkness found in the human heart and possible ways to correct it. There’s also a third element, which is beyond human agency.
How much of fiction and fantasy these days is consumed with the endless search for some sort of third-party resolution to our problems and social issues? Our institutions seem to have failed us and our society sometimes seems on the verge of some horrendous shift in purpose, while most of us are vaguely aware that anything at all is happening. It has been said that literature is merely a mirror of society. If so, then we are indeed in the grasp of a dark creeping shadow.
Will we find a solution in ourselves or will we be overtaken by a nightmarish destiny of our own making? In the real world there is no magnificent hero on a gallant steed riding to the rescue. There is only the creeping shadow … and no one knows what lies beyond or within it.