Weaver DuPaul is a complex man with a fractured past, running away from his demons. Back at home, he tries to find peace, but he can't fit in, and he cannot sleep, and he starts to hallucinate. Ultimately, he befriends a group of homeless folks, all of whom are finding their own answers in some strange new religion. While he is drawn into it, Weaver is also drawn into a much darker trap.

SYNOPSIS:

Weaver DuPaul has never really faced his problems, faced his monsters. His entire life he's spent running away from them. First, to New York, and now, back home to Portland. His mother welcomes him, even as she wishes well for him, and also recognizing that her son -- for all that she loves him -- has limitations she can never talk him out of.

Adult problems, however, can't easily be run from, and a dark hatchet-carved hardcase of a man pursues him from New York, cold of heart and ready to kill.

For a few days, Weaver almost seems like he might find a new way of being back in his old stomping ground. But he cannot sleep and he wanders the town at night, making friends with all manner of strange folks. As the days and nights pass without sleep, Weaver starts hallucinating, driven to imagery by his encounters with the homeless folks nearby. He is fascinated by their tales of "subtracting" away the things that make life worse, including (it seems) parts of their own bodies.

This mesh of influence draws close when his silent pursuer finally arrives. With uncanny and murderous precision, Weaver is hunted down in the night. But luck -- or fate -- draws him deep underground, where all his new friends have "found religion," and desperate to escape his tormentor and equally desperate for meaning in his frantic life, Weaver reaches out for the only thing that makes sense: the Prophet of the Bodiless.

But that's not the only thing Weaver's fingers brush against, and before he can blink, he is thrust into the middle of a contest of wills between supernatural and deadly creatures. Weaver, however, has his own agenda, and the creature that makes him the better offer is going to win his favor.