Southern Gothic fantasy, Creek folktales, Arthurian legends, and Greek mythology come together in this story of fantasy, fear, love and grief. When Aiden Woodward gets lost in the great Okefenokee swamp, he meets a beautiful young woman who guides him back to the past and a mythological version of his own hometown. Join him as he journeys to a hidden isle, explores an enchanted library, sees the terror of the Wild Hunt, and much more. When he goes to investigate a raid on a local farm, he and his friends are attacked by hideous legendary monsters. Aiden, unable to believe what he is seeing, runs for his life, leaving his friends to die. When he realizes what he has done, he feels nothing but shame. Soon the little town where he has made a new home is under a full-scale assault from the monsters of the underworld, and Aiden is determined not to repeat his moment of cowardice. He finds himself in battles fighting alongside fairies and talking animals, facing down hellhounds, vampires, and goblins. He meets men and women who seem just as legendary as the beasts they are fighting, and they lead the defense of the small town against the armies of hell. Just when the war seems won, though, treachery strikes in the heart of the little town and one of their greatest heroes is murdered. Aiden soon finds himself heading to an enchanted isle to learn how to stop the invasion and, he hopes, how to find his way home again. But more monsters than ever before are unleashed against him and his friends, and their greatest hero and defender is forced to go into the underworld alone. The people of the little town brace themselves as best they can in this dark hour, but things go from bad to worse when people begin vanishing without a trace. While on an excursion to fight their enemies, Aiden is caught up in a terrible storm, and in the midst of the dark clouds even darker figures emerge. They snatch away everyone into the blackness, man and beast alike, with Aiden alone left alive. With the shadow of cowardice still hanging over him, Aiden is forced to leave the little town in disgrace. Finally the last of the great heroes, who is none other than the young woman Aiden first met in the swamp, hatches a desperate plan to save them all. Aiden is then forced to walk the winding paths of the underworld himself, but on that dark road he finds many things, among them, at last, his way home.