There is a city in Eastern Europe where American vagabonds go to live like kings.

There is a beautiful woman there, sitting by a window, laughing.

There is a curse in her kiss, that takes the most broken of souls.

And therein lies the Night Country, whose door opens only in dreams....

Disgraced martial artist Daniel Harper was champion, until a tragic mistake destroyed his life. With nothing but the clothes on his back and a one-way ticket, he flees to Eastern Europe, where he can start over and be someone else. But in the lantern-lit crevices of a nameless City, Daniel meets two people who will irreversibly change the course of his future: the mysterious illusionist and pickup artist, Ink; and the flower girl, Kashka, who is far more powerful than she appears.

As Daniel plummets into a downward spiral of hedonism and dereliction, he begins having visions of a fallen world every night when he shuts his eyes, a Night Country where an evil tyrant has stolen the sun, where corpses walk the frozen earth with golden lights in their eyes, and humanity's last remnant must eke out a cruel existence deep underground. It is in this nightmarish otherworld that Daniel realizes his newfound ability is anything but an accident....

Will Daniel kill the Crippled King? Or will he give in to the demons inside him and become the villain?