Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard—thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts...

Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country, where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war.

The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader—heading towards the inevitable god war in this final arc to the bestselling comic series!