When young Jamie, an orphan Cabin Boy aboard The Persephone, received a peculiar and unsettling bauble from an old man during a routine cargo delivery to the Southern shores, he never could have expected the trouble a simple and grotesque shrunken head would lead him into. Ever since he first clutched the wretched thing, portent dreams would stalk his nights, forcing him to witness his fellow Crewmates committing increasingly unspeakable acts, the likes of which he knew not they were capable! Now thrust into a bloody conspiracy, Jamie must choose his allies carefully, take action cautiously, and discover the wicked motivations of those who tower above them all in the shadows, if is to save the lives of his family and himself.