A serial killer stalks the streets of 1920s New Orleans. The grisly killings of wealthy young men leave the Police baffled believing it the work of a mad man but the truth is far more terrible. Drago Kessel, trained his entire life to become a Knight of the Draconian Order, and to wield an ancient sword in a century's old war, races against time to defeat an ancient evil crossing swords quite literally with a fanatical demonic cult and a sinister circus troupe. Marie Desmarais a young debutante of New Orleans High Society plunges into the seedy underbelly of the city risking her life in the hunt for her brother's killer. Her search brings her face to face with horrors beyond imagination and a mysterious voodoo priestess who will reveal her true destiny and change the course of her life forever. Alley Cat, masked thief and adventuress newly arrived in the city from the chaos of Bolshevik Russia with her surly guardian Gregor in tow sees the chance for fortune and fame in the land of the free. Instead she is embroiled in the bitter struggle against supernatural forces. Three disparate lives brought together by the machinations of an abomination from the very depths of antiquity Drago, Marie and Alley Cat are the only vanguard that stands between our world and total annihilation. As zombies rise from the Louisiana swamps and the minions of hell terrorize a city steeped in superstition and black magic can Drago and his rag tag band of allies defy the Forces of Darkness ?