Alan Shade was a stranger in his own life, a constant outsider. But when he returned home for his sister's funeral, he had no idea just how far outside he could go or just how strange he could become. Having been drawn by a mysterious destiny away from the human world and into Graveworld, the land of the dead, he now finds himself in unusual company dealing with newfound necromantic powers. Rejoin Alan, Brattle the ghoul, Sophia the glass fairy, and Stag's Blood -the talking saddlecat- as they leave the moving mountains on a quest that will take them to the ends of Graveworld and the Gardens Arcane.