Survival, an instinct for animals. To fight to the death over scraps of meat or protect one another from hidden dangers. Humans today don't need it and most don't use it, except for the hybrids. We are hunted like dogs and out sense of survival is hightened. The regs want us gone. The creators want us dead, but we want freedom,we run by day and mourn by night. We mourn our old lies were survival was just and instinct not a way of life. For we are. The Hybrids.

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

EX DEA Special Agent Cassidy Reed had gone through many hardships in her life. Dealing with the loss of her daughter, she ran away from her problems. Now in Santa Barbara Cassidy runs into a familiar face, a face she knew all too well...Shawn Spencer, the man's heart she broke years ago. Knowing he's a fraud for claiming to be Psychic, Cassidy promises to keep his secret in return he doesn't pry into her past life. Shawn gets suspicious of the woman he was once deeply in love with realizing she's not the same person as she once was and begins his own investigation only to find out what she's hidden is a lot deeper than he ever imagined. He had a daughter. As Cassidy and Shawn start to become closer once again, suspicious things start happening. Old faces start to reappear and new ones are introduced. With the help of Psychic Detective Shawn Spencer, can Cassidy solve their daughter's murder?

Kali's life is in ruins, and she has no one left to turn to. But her family isn't dead....it's much worse than that. The world isn't the way it used to be. Buildings crumble, cars sit under layers of dust and the only people that walk the streets are the soulless, shambling creatures with no knowledge of who they are any longer. Kali Williams knows she can't hide for long, and when the soul suckers come for her she runs, breathless with fear, straight into the arms of a mysterious stranger who calls himself "the guardian".