Golden Years
On the eve of a hurricane, Agent MAYA is sent to Florida to trace the finances of a mob informant killed in the witness protection program. When she uncovers evidence of the unnatural, the rest of M Cell is activated.
On the eve of a hurricane, Agent MAYA is sent to Florida to trace the finances of a mob informant killed in the witness protection program. When she uncovers evidence of the unnatural, the rest of M Cell is activated.
Evidence of unusual coincidences lead the Agents to a suspect, an old book, and a strange deck of tarot cards. Then things get weird.
Trapped in a subdivision of impossible geometries, the Agents discover a portal to a place called Carcosa, and a plot tied to the coming storm.
After a close call at their hotel, M Cell assaults the gated community as the storm approaches and reality starts to give way to Carcosa.
Summoned to Club Apocalypse, the tarot deck is appraised as real, and Stephen Alzis calls in the favor the Agents owe him.
Agent MAYA finds herself in the body of a soldier during the Vietnam War. As she searches for the missing tarot cards in a plantation owned by a French citizen, something watches from the jungle's edge.
Agent MICHAEL is sent into the body of a Wehrmacht officer in France in early 1944. He saves the tarot cards with relative ease, but remains stuck in time. What else must he do to repay Alzis' favor?
In 1928 Austria Agent MORGAN is in the body of an occult store owner attending an auction that includes the tarot deck, an auction that is interrupted by theft and murder.
Something takes hold of the Agents and propels them to the Mars colony in the year CE 2149. They have one more card to find, though they are unsure of who, or what, sent them on this part of their errand.
The agents return to Earth to a reckoning with Stephen Alzis, followed by a trip 70 years in the making.