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.