Dying was not on Shiloh’s to-do list, but this did not stop it from happening.

And he certainly could not have imagined that leading up to this would be an escape from ghosts in a city that enjoys changing alleys as you run down them, and continues with a flight from hungry demons, or a deadly game of battle chess.

Because when you live with your grandparents who loop chains on the gates to keep you in, have an elderly and warty housekeeper guarding you, and must put up with a tattle-tale cousin who snitches on you if you even look outside, these sorts of things don’t even occur to you.

But when Shiloh discovers a cave on a school trip where an ancient letter offers him a life or death mission that he must repeat once more, only then does he realize that he faces the greatest and most dangerous enemy there is. The fate that awaits him in the future also awaited him in the past, and diving in without all the resources or backup could prove a terrible and fatal mistake again...