So do you like her? What do you mean by that? Are you going to marry her like Mama and Papa? - - - Neyco had told his sister no. He'd promised to protect her, and he had promised himself that no feeling would ever devour him-whether it was emptiness, sadness, or love. He had promised himself that the way he thought of Akira was something he would never tell her. And he had begun to promise himself that her love was something he didn't deserve. But as it turned out, Neyco had never been very good at keeping promises. It was always her, it always had been, and it always would be.

Akira is a bounty hunter. Lunae is a soldier. Starstreak is a murderer. The land of Seathia has been ravaged and destroyed by the Sanistery. They take and they take and leave nothing left, and the surviving Houses are left wondering when it will be their turn to be destroyed next. Of the three, Akira knows the threat best, Lunae has only just grasped its true magnitude, and Starstreak sees it as nothing more than an opportunity. Akira will do whatever it takes to survive this war- jobs are jobs, and money is money. Lunae, desperate to end the chaos, fights to save what little remains of a world she never fully knew. Starstreak? She's only trying to live her life, with her brother at her side, no matter the cost. Three paths and pasts are allied forcefully and fixed together where they don't fit, compelled to face a common enemy in a world where survival tops all.