The Shambles

Sometimes the lost don't want to be found.

Tucker Ferguson thought he was moving along in a predictable fashion. His life consisted of working by day as an athletic trainer, clubbing and partying at night.  Until the day he gets a mysterious plea for help on his cellphone, and realizes that his brother's declaration that Tucker needs a quest is about to become literally true.

But Tucker's perplexing cellphone message isn't the only odd happening in Colville, New York.  Two policemen, wry, plain-spoken Dean Williamson and earnest, dedicated Khalil Mansour, have been chasing a petty thief named Cyprian Grove who seemingly has the ability to appear out of nowhere and disappear again at will.  When they realize that there's a connection between the message Tucker received and Cyprian Grove's antics, the situation takes a turn in a markedly sinister direction.

The three men are drawn into the connections between our world and the Shambles—that mysterious, shadowy place where all the lost things go. Lost socks, lost car keys, lost wallets--and lost people. And when a young megalomaniac decides that she wants the Shambles to be her kingdom, regardless of whose life it costs, Tucker is jerked out of his complacency into a world where there are no rules—and Mansour and Williamson may be the only ones who can save his life.