"Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there..." August 4th 1944 The Brotherhood of the Shadow has always been something of a myth, but not even a myth can hide from reality forever. While many dissenters have fled or simply disappeared, a few have stepped into the light and embraced the Third Reich's dark supremacist vision. Working in secret to develop remote viewing skills for intelligence gathering, they truly believe their time has come. D-Day changes everything, and the scramble to escape Germany's impending military collapse soon begins in earnest. Meanwhile, among the thousands of soldiers sweeping through France is one Sergeant Jacob Small of the Fourth Infantry. Just a regular joe whose world is turned inside out when he wakes up in England following a chance encounter with the Brotherhood's single most dangerous Sensitive. Jake reckons that the headaches and the nightmares are simply the predictable symptoms of shellshock, but the sinister talent scouts surrounding him don't believe in shellshock...and they don't believe in chance either.