In Alton, nothing dies. Not love. Not hunger. Not the sins of the dead. When Evelyn arrives in the isolated town searching for a new beginning, she finds herself trapped inside a story that began decades before her birth. A burned woman waits beneath the lake. A forgotten family calls her home. And somewhere within the fog, a man with copper-blonde hair watches her return to a place she was never meant to escape. Some inherit their parents' eyes. Evelyn inherited something far worse.

Some people are born with everything. Others are born with nothing. Ivan belongs to the second kind. After spending years surviving on Moscow's unforgiving streets, he learns one thing: the world was never built for people like him. Behind every luxury store, every expensive car, and every smiling family hides a reality he can never touch. Or so he thinks. When an unexpected encounter changes the course of his life, Ivan finds himself pulled into a world far bigger-and far more dangerous-than he ever imagined. A world where money speaks louder than morality, trust is a luxury, and some distances can't be measured in miles... but in social class. And in a city full of people, Ivan is about to discover what it truly means to be homeless.