Cross Faded

The last thing Ezra Ashford expects to see in his apartment after waking up from a four-day bender is a woman in medieval armor hunting an invisible scarab the size of a Great Dane. But being an addict can do terrible things to the brain, and while he's no stranger to hallucinations, this seems a little too real to be just in his head.

Despite the woman's warnings for him to forget everything he's seen, Ezra's once tepid existence is quickly overwhelmed by bizarre monsters. From the siren in his local bar to the fly-faced man packing fish at his day job, he can't seem to stop seeing these creatures everywhere. Ezra can't tell if he's burned out or if he's going crazy like his mother did years before.

And doing what comes naturally to him—getting high to forget it all—isn't working either. Ezra soon finds himself in a turf war between two rival dealers that lands him directly in police crosshairs, wanted for arson and murder.

The harder Ezra tries to ignore his problems, the more abysmal things become. And the threat grows substantially graver once he finds out that an ancient monster, Bandon, has taken a sudden and irrevocable interest in him; and that all the others he's taken a liking to have disappeared to parts unknown, never heard from again.

After a lifetime of running from his problems and chasing down his feelings with every new high, Ezra feels powerless to stop his downward spiral out of control. Lost in a world he feels rejected him and plagued by monsters that may or may not be in his head, Ezra must try to find out what's happening before it's too late and his personal demons end up consuming him completely.