A young sculptress despondently searching for understanding after the tragic death of her infant son... A professor of history and a beautiful French vintner, still longing for the love they shared during World War II... A legless man seeking retribution and escape from a horror worse than death... A retired detective itching to get back in the game... Disparate lives, yet each meticulously woven together over time to play a special part in the Puzzleman's twisted vision of eternal life. Into the black Cathedral Fleur du Sang and into the pipes they must go -- into a terrifying world of grumemonsters, where the inaccuracies of accepted history and the gruesome future of mankind are laid bare. For Amanda Zimmerman, Professor John Rainbow, Jeannette Orfevre, the legless man, and Detective Ben Henfry the Puzzleman is a personal demon awakened into a living nightmare, and it's up to them alone to wage their fight for sanity and salvation -- a fight that swells into a harrowing escape spanning two continents, and the supernatural perversion of time and dimension. Welcome to the pipeworld. Welcome to truth and eternity. Welcome to the world of the Puzzleman.