All Damien Bryant wants is to spend the rest of his undeath on his peaceful Alaskan homestead. He’s perfectly happy with his animals for company, the occasional climber’s blood for sustenance, and no vengeful, stake-wielding KGB agents anywhere. But his routine gets shaken up with the arrival of Ben Caedrys, a lone traveler who is unlike any other climber he’s encountered before. Not only does Ben communicate with fairies and have arcane sigils and enchanted artifacts at his disposal, but he also knows a frightening amount about Damien’s past. Things that Damien would rather stay buried.

In order to keep this information secret, Damien must leave his secluded little mountaintop for a haunted magic shopping mall in Portland, encounter creatures like chimera helicopter pilots, fish men, and giant dragons of death, and fight a troublemaking member of his own family.