A realistic fiction that takes place in Clearwater Washington. A boy named Will is on edge with society and it's norms then a transfer student changes the way he sees life and the way he feels about the people around him.

Continuing in the timeline of Scott Westerfield's Leviathan Trilogy, the War to End All Wars has come to an end after the death of Nikola Tesla, and the destruction of his devastating weapon, Goliath. Austria-Hungary and Serbia were the first to give out, Germany following soon after their allies had left them. The European powers on the Darwinist side had come together to form a coalition, and America found herself a way to join in on this, forming the UN of this timeline. The Ottoman Republic has given rights to many women, and thanks to Darwinist help with driving the Germans out, they have slowly integrated Darwinist beliefs into their borders. Mexico is still in great turmoil, and now the British Empire faces receding connections to its further reaches, and the Asian powers are resisting European influence. Basamus opens on an agent's mission to go to Japan and speak amongst them all, to hopefully smoothen their growing anger against Britain and the UN. Their, he will meet with the airship Asahi, and his simple mission may become quite.....complicated.