Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu are friends, lovers, and ancient Sumerian super-heroes. When, after killing the monsters Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven, Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh goes on a quest seeking immortal life.

When an amateur archeologist (pothunter) digging along Buttermilk Creek near Leander, a small town near Austin, she unearths an ancient goddess who zombifies her victims. A team including a private detective, a professor and a boy computer genius seek to understand her motives and counter the mayhem as she lays claim to her ancient land rights, which leads to a massive confrontation. 

When Maria Dominguez finishes her PhD, she receives a very good offer from a prestigious university, but taking the job will mean moving back to San Antonio, a city full of buried bad memories she thought she had left behind for good. As a medievalist, she is not very tech savvy, but when she buys a new car and rents a smart apartment, soon all her technology is haunted with cyber ghosts, which turn out to be terrifyingly real.

When pianist Annabel Li catches her husband cheating on her again, she enters a fugue state and flees to the dubious safety of an old friend from high school, Dominique, in small town Texas, where the people she knew 20 years ago have only grown more toxic. Drinking Dom's teas and wines flavored with mysterious herbs from her garden, amid the casual and pervasive drug use, as the deaths mount Annabel must fight for her sanity and even h...