It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum... twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos have intervened, but the Dukes, those remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order amid this bitmite-devastated wilderness.
Yet, across the folds of time and space, rogues and rebels are now rising up against the Empire. From a medieval fortress, where wandering mummers stage a harlequin play... to Kentigern, where another harlequin, Jack Flash, wreaks havoc on a fascist state that thought him dead. From a 1939 Paris, where Jack Carter and Seamus Finnan, heroes of the International Brigades, seek to rewrite history... to a 1929 Berlin, where a very different Jack seeks to save the world from a history he himself has helped to make real.
Only one thing is certain...
When reality is written on skin, only blood will do as ink.
