A man can flee from the trappings of money and breeding, but if he runs too far, something even worse may be waiting. Evan Ryder, son of one of the nation’s wealthiest ranchers, has travelled the world in search of adventure, but now he may have finally bitten off more than he can chew. While serving as an investigator for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, his assignment runs afoul of a mysterious society with powerful members and shadowy intent, and now the two are on a collision course set to culminate on a forested mountainside with an evil secret all its own.

Evan Ryder, born into privilege, has spent years using his uncanny gift of observation and deduction to make a name for himself in the ranks of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Still with a love of expensive suits but on the cusp of emerging from his family’s shadow, and after a life and death battle with the supernatural on the haunted peaks of Little Mountain, Ryder returned with an unexpected prize: a new member of the family. The agents of a shadowy cabal known by the acronym W.E.r.d. have dogged the intrepid detective for six years, seemingly after his young ward Nina Ryder, looking to use her unique abilities for their own ends. But after a long overdue standoff, Ryder discovers that he may actually be the target of the group’s latest recruitment attempts. It seems a whole town in the Colorado badlands has gone bad and Evan Ryder is their choice to find out why…