RETIRED NEWARK, NEW JERSEY DETECTIVE MADDOX BOXWOOD IS DYING. AIDED BY HIS FEW REMAINING FRIENDS, HE ASSIGNS HIMSELF TO ONE FINAL CASE: AN OLD POLICEMAN'S URBAN LEGEND, A CASE SO COLD IT MIGHT NOT EVEN EXIST. DECADES AGO, A YOUNG GIRL NAMED PERSEPHONE ALFORD DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE... WITHOUT. A. TRACE.AS IF SHE'D NEVER EXISTED AT ALL.DIAGNOSED WITH A DEGENERATIVE DISEASE AND GIVEN ONLY WEEKS TO LIVE, MADDOX FINDS HIMSELF ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH KLOUM, A MALEVOLENT BEING THAT SEEMS TO THE HOLD THE ANSWERS TO PERSEPHONE'S DISAPPEARANCE, TO HIS OWN DETERIORATING HEALTH, AND MAYBE...TO HUMANITY'S FUTURE.