The world's barely a millennium old and it's already gone to hell. A young civilization rampant with vice and betrayal is the only life root-smoking, grog-swilling Dashel has ever known. When his ailing legend of a father calls the no-nonsense nomad home to settle some very old family business - namely, two infamous brothers who up and disappeared centuries earlier - Dashel puts his self-imposed exile on hold to investigate out east, in the seamy land of Nod. But in a world as new and small as Dashel's, just about everyone's family, and many faces are familiar - though few, if any, ought to be trusted. In this, Ryan Everett Felton's fourth book, pulp noir meets prehistory in a tale of the world's first detective story. Also presented here is a selection of the author's further fantasy and science fiction work, collected in print for the first time.