Jamie Delano's tour de force follows the lives of a disjointed family, struggling to survive in the morally and socially decadent United States of 2020. From symbiotic venereal diseases to exclusive human breeding facilities, the future never looked so bleak, or so hopeful.

Half a decade after corporations took down governments worldwide, Ella, a twenty-four-year-old with a penchant for psychedelics, supports herself, in gang-ruled Los Angeles in 2090, the best way she can - high robbery. Forced into working as a spy for K-Top, a barricaded corporate state, she discovers their technological wonders, inaccessible to Outsiders like her. Ella uses her ingenuity and charm, as well as her seemingly otherwordly memory to seduce Dr. Hartley only to uncover a conspiracy set to reshape humankind.

Commander Cassandra Kresnov has her hands full. She must lead an assault against the Federation world of Pyeongwha, where a terrible sociological phenomenon has unleashed hell against the civilian population. Then she faces the threat from a portion of League space known as New Torah, in which a ruthless regime of surviving corporations are building new synthetic soldiers but taking the technology in alarming directions.