At first glance, Plainhills is a developing and prosperous city, indistinguishable from any other. Beautiful in its own way, with a good social standing for its residents, it offers a peaceful life. The city boasts a cultural heritage from its founding and offers excellent education to its citizens. Rich in life, the city has much to offer any newcomer. However, Plainhills harbors mysterious secrets hidden within and beneath its walls. Far from every resident suspects the mysteries that permeate its streets. The city has another face, one it reveals only to those brave enough to see it.

The story follows the life of Detective Steven McKnight as he is drawn into a whirlwind of intertwined strangeness. His quiet bachelor life and police work are interrupted by supernatural events that confront him with difficult choices, each with its consequences. The thread of the story leads him to another Plainhills, familiar yet different from the one he knows, to a woman who claims to be his wife, though he doesn't even remember their wedding. To a love he doesn't realize until it's lost, and the oddities of his hometown become his daily reality, and more than that, his work.

Plainhills - The City Beyond the Darkness is the story of police detective Steven McKnight as the supernatural side of his town collapses around him. But behind every incomprehensible oddity lies an incredible truth, hidden beneath Plainhills or beyond its darkness.

Welcome to the city of mystery - Plainhills!