Orphaned as a child and raised on the margins of society, Jack Boniface never knew his place in the world. Until he discovered it waiting for him...in a darkness far older than the reign of men. Unbeknownst to him Jack was fated to become the next in a long lineage of Shadowmen--mortals bound to Ioas, violent voodoo spirits of immense power--that could safeguard our world against incursions from realms beyond.