In 1862 a Dutch widow travels to the Old West to discover the fate of her husband and learn the horrible secret of the town in which he died.
Shroud follows a young womans (Victoria Celestine) journey from Holland to the America of the early 1860s torn by civil war. Having learned of her husbands peril in a lost town in the Old West, she has withdrawn from the funeral of her prestigious father to make a dangerous transatlantic journey.
Arriving in the hidden town of Shroud, the woman begins to unravel a dark 300-year old secret. The facts arent entirely clear, and much has been marred by folklore and myth, but something that began with the 16th century expedition of Francisco Coronado, the Spanish conquistador, has left a deep scar upon the native Apache who surround Shroud.
For legend tells there is something else in The Arizona Territory besides Indians, Mexicans and Americans. Something in the hills. Something that never strays far from the place of its birth.
Trained in the same ecclesiastical science as her husband, Victoria has come to solve the mystery of her husbands disappearance and to confront the insatiable terror responsible for it.
Against the objections of terrified townsfolk who serve it, and against the plotting of Confederate expatriates that defend it, a dedicated Victorian will challenge the rule of the ancient damned. Her desperate bid to illuminate the darkest pocket of pain and anguish in America will pit the summit of her fathers forbidden knowledge against superstitions coldest champion.
In the end, the frontier of Mans frail knowledge will be put to the test, as his faith and his cold fears wrestle to rule his mind. Shroud is a story of science and sacrilege, hope and hubris. From the wreckage of the final moments, a child will become a man, and a legend will be born.
