Max Elliot grew up in Vigilance, a town set deep in the Wastes. The Wastes were a barren land shrouded in darkness and surrounded by diabolen, sick twisted creatures of the night that ripped apart humans limb from limb with no mercy. Most people who came to Vigilance were hunted criminals, seeking to escape authority. Not the Elliots. They were hunters. Yet when his father dies slaying a behemoth, Max finds his family's secrets thrust upon him, including why they really came to Vigilance.