Things are looking up for Colm Avery. He faced his worst fears and came out the other side alive, if not necessarily whole. He has a new, more optimistic outlook, and is making the best of it. He has friends again. He's leaving the house more than once a month. He even went to a party!

But things take a turn when his estranged parents track him down and enlist his help in finding Colm's missing brother. Colm's relationship with his father isn't a good one, which is exacerbated by the recent upheaval in Colm's life that he is still working through. Nevertheless, he puts his grievances aside to help his little brother Conner.

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Things aren't as simple as Colm anticipates, however. Conner's trail leads Colm into secret societies, necromancy, grand theft and a devious plot that Colm is forced into. On top of it all, the shadow organization that runs the magical underworld is pressuring Colm to join its ranks, and is starting to suspect him (rightly so) of harboring interdimensional entities... which he learns is highly illegal. Oops.

Colm will have to juggle his family, his profession, and his illicit tendencies while trying to stay alive. Not to mention keeping the agents of the Corvus Concord in the dark about his less than clean past.

Maybe he should have stayed at home.