T he Grand Canyon—a great slash in the fabric of earth, where vision falls into infinity, and one senses the smallness of human concerns. It is 1935. Jake Rezner, working in a CCC camp, meets a loving redhead named Camilla, whose skin is pale despite the summer sun. She leads him up a narrow side canyon he’d failed to notice before and introduces him to the man who lives there: a sculptor named Edgar Tyrrell. It seems that Camilla models for him. Yet what Jake sees of Tyrrell makes him want to leave at once. Up on the rim, it’s 1991. Seventeen-year-old Cathy Brainard vanished into the Canyon a month ago, and Cathy’s great aunt—widow of the sculptor Edgar Tyrrell, who died in the 1930s—has engaged private detective Joe Keogh and his old friend Mr. Strangeways to find the girl. Strangeways fears foul play, and for good reason: Edgar Tyrrell, like Strangeways himself, is nosferatu. There will be nothing ordinary about this disappearance with a vampire involved, Strangeways knows.