Fate is snapping at the heels of orphan Bobby Normal in this, the last instalment of the five stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of the Divergent Lands.

Having lost his sister Katy to the clutches of the fallen angel Asherah and then parted ways with Claw, the sole-surviving member of the vampiric Children of Cain, Bobby encounters the enigmatic three-in-one personification of the Abyss, the omniscient ocean that encompasses the three Realms.

Bobby may be desperate to escape the world of treachery, plots and death that presently makes his life a misery, but the Abyss has other plans for him. She draws the teenager even further into the shadowy conspiracy against Kanor, the Black Dragon, saying that, in order to save the world, Bobby needs to save a man who died two thousand years ago...