Royal City charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and he brow-beaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago.

"Contains material originally published in single magazine form as Royal City #1-5"--Title page verso.