EdgeHungryAdventurer
For the folk of Douglas County, life in the world left behind by the exodus of humankind to distant planets is quiet, dull, and filled with mystery. The wilderness beyond the borders of the County--a carefully marked line known as the Edge--is a place where long-forgotten magic has returned to the world. For nearly a century, a community of would-be adventurers, the Edge-hungry, have tested their courage with risky and illegal excursions into the wilderness beyond the Edge. In recent years, however, more and more adventurers have returned with vacant stares and slack faces, lost to the world. Joan Delgado, a local farmhand assigned to a committee to investigate stories of the wilderness, believes there must be some connection between the nature of life within the County and the new dangers in the world beyond the Edge. When a lost adventurer from generations past returns to the town claiming to be immortal, Joan and her fellow researchers must face the possibility that Douglas County, long believed safe from the dangers of the wilderness, will soon be swallowed by its madness.