Previously on Dark Shadows: The Comic Strip Series: an exorcism at present-day Collinwood sent Quentin Collins back to the Underworld. Determined to make his way back home and restore the life he knew, Quentin has made it as far as 1850. The members of the household include Jessica Collins, the double of Angelique, and a woman with a vested interested in witchcraft ... and two men, each powerful in their own way: Tad Collins, head of the family, and Bramwell Collins, a pauper who has recently returned. But Tad is already married ... to Laura, the immortal Phoenix of the Ages, who has a fiery plan to set in motion ... though a familiar enemy may stand in her way ...