In The Shepherd, Volume 2: The Path of Souls, the Millers entered an extraordinary district in the afterlife, a “hospital” for souls of warriors who were killed in combat and are unable to move past the traumatic events surrounding their deaths.

Now in The Path of Dogs, the starling conclusion to The Path of Souls, young Val, Lawrence, and Franco find themselves separated and each facing desperate situations. Val, joined by Private Will Brannigan, had volunteered to make his way through the enemy held neighborhoods of the Jolan District of Fallujah. However, the Seam shifts and Fallujah gives away to Fredericksburg, Maryland. Brannigan is no Marine at all but rather a Confederate infantryman of the 13th Mississippi. For his part, Lawrence, accompanied by Napoleon’s chausser Henri-Jacques Tournier and the embittered Wendat Sondaqua, straddles the vastly divergent spiritual domains of 1799 Jaffa and the bloodstained longhouses of 1648 Wendake. While his son and grandson face centuries’ old threats, Franco must rally the beleaguered Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines as dark forces encircle them.