An ordinary man. An age old evil. A blood-soaked nightmare with no escape. When reporter Phil Sturgess hears of a new rock band called Minstrel's Bargain, his life descends into horror. As the city he lives in succumbs to ever more violent and macabre episodes of shocking murders and barbarous acts of self-destruction, Sturgess begins to understand that there is something very wrong with Minstrel's Bargain. Something very wrong indeed. With time running...

Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. Phil Sturgess is doing well. His life is good and he's realised that turning sixty isn't all that bad after all. But when a message arrives from his forgotten past, Sturgess is once more thrown into his old existence. The Prophecy needs him, for the powers that rule the universe are readying themselves for the final battle. That battle will see either the Light or the Dark reign supreme, and Sturgess finds himself in the...