Aurora, Texas, 1934. Young Lotte Lerman lives a shadow-life, halfway between reality and dream. But this spell is soon broken by a horrifying tragedy that seems to have its roots in another world. Cut adrift from the waking world entirely, Lotte finds herself on a journey through a nightmare of Depression-era America, searching for the one thing she can’t bear to live without. On the way she’ll run into flying saucers, rail-riding killers, cartomancers with secrets to keep, and who knows what else? Only one thing is certain— nothing will ever be the same.