On Canada's Arctic coast, the lives of local villagers are threatened by an abused Inuit teenager, a rogue A.I., and an ancient demon. An alliance between the oldest and newest forms of evil in our planet's history could trigger a world war and usher in a permanent dark age. pWhile investigating brutal attacks against Inuit villages, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, assisted by renowned blind detective Peter Straw, discover a far more complex danger. In this futuristic sci fifantasy, sometimes the line between good and evil, even human and inhuman, is ambiguous. Featuring Straw and his intellectually augmented seeing eye dog Watson, a host of human, nonhuman, and inhuman actors struggle either to avoid catastrophe or facilitate it. Heroes and villains alike are confronted with interesting and enduring questions do humans possess immortal souls If so, might an intellectually augmented animal or independent A.I. also possess the same Rather than purely hypothetical, these questions wil