Amid the ashes of the Civil War, a Yankee minister boards an airship, little knowing that his world, maybe even his soul, will be destroyed.

When Willem and his family arrive in Key West, even the Union troops can't protect them from a gang of vicious, Confederate swamp rats, led by man called "Smilin'" Jack Welch, who's decided Willem's teenage daughter should belong to him.

Deep in the Everglades, a sorceress has foreseen the coming of a righteous man who'll help her scourge Welch's gang from her domain. But she needs Willem's blood to fuel her power.

Can she and Willem find join forces in time to save his daughter from an unspeakable fate?

"There's enough plot here for a 500-page novel, and I think these characters are good enough to carry a work of that length. As a novella, this is a lot of fun, a little bit pulpy, but at the same time serious, and dark. The bad guys and underlying evil is like what you'd find in a Lansdale or Vachss story, but you have a bit of Lovecraft and even Poe peppered in here. The unreliable narrator and very crafty layering of meanings among the characters, their words, and their actions make this the single best thing I have read by Travis Heermann. The author attempts some things that I would classify as culturally risky, but totally pulls it off through artful arrangement." – Amazon Reviewer