Upon returning from a nearby market, Lynch comes home, to his Madeleine, delighted to bring back a puppet figure for little Timothy. But he finds an unknown woman, Jennifer, waiting for him at the door, and all the inhabitants of Darkwood swear shes been his wife the whole time, and theres no trace of his son! With Brendons help, the man starts trying to reconstruct his life: he has to go back to the desert he crossed during his last journey and find out the truth thanks to a fascinating winged demon huntress, the only one who might be able to provide him with the key to solve the troubling enigma his life has turned into