Private Investigator Zefar Folklore spends his nights chasing down liars, cheaters, and insurance scams. Boring work, but it pays the bills. Then Claire Hastings walks into his office shaking, desperate, claiming a man is stalking her.

A man only she can see.

At first, Zefar’s ready to brush her off as another breakdown case. Until he steps outside and feels it himself: the cold. The shadow that shouldn’t exist. Something watching from the corner of the world, just beyond sight.

This isn’t a routine case. This is the first. The first victim. The first encounter. And whether he likes it or not, Zefar Folklore is about to become the man standing between the ordinary world and whatever nightmare just crawled into it.