Book excerpt: Between these pages lies a world unlike anything you've ever known, from the mind of one of the most talented artists of this generation. Here, you will find men and women transcending mortality, gods waging war on other gods, and otherwordly creatures pursuing worldly passions. In these pages, Ian Sta. Maria has created a world for beings he's met in his daydreams and nightmares. But these stories have neither beginning nor end—only the enduring present. It’s a world waiting for your imagination to come even more alive. They say that through stories, we transcend death. We simply become the stories. Between these pages lies immortality. And it's waiting for you.