One's life can't be judged until they've faced death...

Talib and Hotan find themselves facing off with the element of Death, Iapetos. Failing to take him out, Talib's life starts flashing before him. As he experiences thousands of years, things that were once forgotten beginning to emerge. Will he find the answer in his past in time to aid Hotan?

Talib discovers that simply being an immortal leaves complications in his life he never thought possible. Finding himself caught in disaster from century to century, he will watch numerous lives fall. From the fall of Helike to the Plague in London, he discovers his brother has something to do with all of the deaths in the world he wanders through.

Chasing Hotan's shadow, he slowly discovers his brother's sins, learning that family doesn't always make the best choices for you, and making the right choices for the whole may not lead to the best choice for oneself.