Jacob Fallon, a failed author, plans to win back his family, but then he's ensnared in a deadly, Faustian pact.

Jacob looks to drown his sorrows at the neighborhood bar, where he's compelled by the insidious proposition of a sinister figure who approaches him. For a life-changing sum, he must locate four designated strangers and make the case for their lives. He has two weeks.

So begins a race against time to save the lives of four unwitting souls, including that of his son, who means more to him than life itself. To succeed, he must confront his greatest frailties and unearth the darkest of secrets. Along the way, after stripping everything else away, he discovers what truly authors our very lives.

EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a literary suspense tale tinged with snippets of magical realism, in a harrowing journey where one man seeks to truly learn how to live, when all he has come to live for appears lost.