Smokin' Mirrors

Ace Shades wears sunglasses at all times, even at night. He cannot remember the color of his eyes, nor the last time he took his sunglasses off (hence the moniker: “Shades”). His girlfriend’s a piano, his friends aren’t all there, and the world, according to how he sees it, is a dark and unfriendly place.

But things are changing within the detective. Perhaps it’s the case. Perhaps it’s something else. But the closer that he gets to the truth, the more that he can see the cracks within his own existence. And he’s close to discovering the truth hidden long ago, keeping his world held together.

In a small, rural town in Tennessee, self-proclaimed detective Ace Shades investigates a series of ongoing murders, somehow related to his dark, mysterious past—a past so dark and mysterious that even he doesn’t remember any of it. With the help of his colleagues, who are just as unstable, unpredictable, and unreliable as he is, they begin to uncover a conspiracy involving a threat unlike any other before it—or at least any other threat they had faced before, assuming that they had faced any other threat at all.