The Smith

There's no such thing as coincidence, only order.Like a series of falls down a precipitous staircase, Harlan Smith loses everything-his wallet, his job, his grip on reality… but everything he has lost pales in comparison to what he's about to find.Scooped up by a greasy con man, Harlan is unwittingly thrust into the Antwood underworld of guilds and relic-seekers wherein bizarre neighborhoods past, present, and future converge within an increasingly surreal landscape.Harlan must employ his freshly-realized talent of "ordering" things to piece together obscure clues in pursuit of an elusive grail dubbed "the Big One," and along the way rescue a fugitive with dark secrets of her own.In a world of quirky characters and unforeseen twists involving everything from irate dramaturges, dyspeptic ex-employers, and a not-so-secret sect of Librarians (capital "L"), there is no choice but for Harlan to push forward, into the wild-or else get swallowed up in the hungering jaws of chaos in his wake.