There are holes in San Cicaro's history. Holes wide enough to sink an aircraft carrier through. Holes hiding tales of tragedy, of deals in the dark and the schemes of so-called spirits. Events too strange and inexplicable even for a city with such a supernatural, bohemian reputation to remember. These are the gaps intrepid reporter Olivia Murphy has been tasked to fill, toiling beneath the city's library, seeking documents almost lost. Amidst this trove of moldering papers and microfiche, Olivia finds herself drawn once more into the sun-baked strangeness of her home city, and the questions that inevitably arise. Who was the oldest man in the San Cicaro Sanitorium? What dread misfortune befell the USS Fairweather, killed in its crib at the height of World War II? Did a fifties suburb play host to visitors from beyond the stars? And just what are those distant dark strangers, watching events unfold? Harbingers of doom, or chroniclers of fate? And just how will these events divine the end of San Cicaro itself?
There are holes in San Cicaro's history. Holes wide enough to sink an aircraft carrier through. Holes hiding tales of tragedy, of deals in the dark and the schemes of so-called spirits. Events too strange and inexplicable even for a city with such a supernatural, bohemian reputation to remember. These are the gaps intrepid reporter Olivia Murphy has been tasked to fill, toiling beneath the city's library, seeking documents almost lost. Amidst this trove of moldering papers and microfiche, Olivia finds herself drawn once more into the sun-baked strangeness of her home city, and the questions that inevitably arise. Who was the oldest man in the San Cicaro Sanitorium? What dread misfortune befell the USS Fairweather, killed in its crib at the height of World War II? Did a fifties suburb play host to visitors from beyond the stars? And just what are those distant dark strangers, watching events unfold? Harbingers of doom, or chroniclers of fate? And just how will these events divine the end of San Cicaro itself?