OBSIDIAN CHAMBER

the long version

A tragic disappearance. A shocking return. An international manhunt.. After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive -- only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past. Proctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, pursuing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown. But in this world, nothing is as it seems. And by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying mechanism has stirred -- and it may already be too late ...