What if a stranger is not our contemporary and not from planet earth at all? A fugitive, the last survivor of the Phantom project... A prospector paving paths for the living in the city of the dead... A man from the 25th century, accustomed to surviving on the ruins of a broken planet, and in time of escape, caught in the ancient world-reflection. So far from the original world that there is no way back...

Author's notes: Chronology: the first in chronological order is “The Walk of Lost Souls”, the events of the “Crack of Chains” cycle follow, but any of them can be read separately.