Science and the supernatural collide in the Colorado mountain town of Purgatory when Salia Warchez, a dangerously talented sorceress, pursues the final key to her sinister scheme of bringing oil-a maliciously destroyed, long-lost commodity-back to the world, under her strict control. When physicist Jack Vara is unwillingly thrust into the tangled web left by his deceased father, he and the malagente must ready themselves for a standoff against Salia and her Apocalyptic Warriors in one of the most dangerous and peculiar places on earth.