David Summerfield's life is now unrecognisable, money, divorce, lonliness and a new love...Voids yearn to be filled and the gaping hole left in his life is plugged with The Ark - his unique artistic exhibition of preserved animals and exotic wild beasts. Some of the animals are rare and highly prized, others - when alive - are highly dangerous. In this new art form boundaries are made to be broken; introducing Tamerlane, the obscure, yet strikingly beautiful masterpiece that will crown The Ark and dominate David Summerfield's life from that point onwards. With it comes a force of unimaginable evil that will endanger the only joys remaining in his world and will redefine the limits of how far one man will go to protect the only true love of his life as he discovers a terrifying truth.