Holden Maddox is a curator haunted by his pursuit of the truth. His esoteric study of Frank Lloyd Wright design and his attempts to sort out his shadowy, small-town past are irresistible obsessions. Driven by a desire to reconstruct his personal history and forge a future for himself, Holden is drawn into a mystery surrounding two pieces of art glass, artifacts with convoluted roots much older and deeper than he knows. Uncanny forces—from the far reaches of the solar system to the Brooklyn Bridge—complicate the quest in ways that defy his imagination, test his resolve, and bend the laws of physics.