Detective Taylor uses his gift as a child of the Nightside to help people find lost things, but when Joanna Barrett asks for his help finding her runaway daughter, Taylor is forced to return to the nightmares of his past to bring the girl home.

The name's John Taylor. I work the garish streets of the Nightside-the hidden heart of London where it's always three A.M., where inhuman creatures and otherworldly gods walk side by side in the endless darkness of the soul. I have a talent for finding things. People... property... no problem. But now I'm after something different. A local diva called the Nightingale has cut herself off from her family and friends, and I've been hired to find out...

Taylor makes a living finding things. Recently he found the most dangerous thing of all: the true identity of his long-gone mother. She created the Nightside, and now for her own warped reasons, she intends to destroy it. Taylor has to travel back in Time, through endless eons, to stop her before she gets started.

With a new sheriff, The Walking Man, stalking the streets of the Nightside, preying on evildoers and indulgent party-goers alike, it falls to P.I. John Taylor to stop him before The Walking Man turns all of the Nightside into a wasteland.

Private investigator John Taylor finds himself suddenly the reluctant owner of the legendary sword Excalibur and must pay a visit to the Last Defenders of Camelot, who dwell in a place more frightening than Nightside, to find out why.