Bastien lost his parents while a child, and the underground shelter he has to call his home is quickly shifting under the influence of mysterious forces. It soon becomes clear that something dark is gripping the underground shelter city of Phobos, engulfing the life of everyone there. The search to untangle the twisted series of events that left him an orphan will take Bastien closer than anyone before him to the core of the secrets that created New Society. Even Kate, the woman that had always anchored him in the ocean of uncertainty will reveal there is far more to her than he ever thought possible. As their world collapses, Bastien will be confronted with the most difficult choice in his life: saving his or her life, with no apparent way forward to doing both. He will struggle to retain his humanity against the echoes of former souls implanted deep into his own mind, forever working tirelessly to achieve control of the physical vessel And he will fight not only the society that created him but the unnatural order of his world that has become unhinged, threatening to erase the remnants of the human race.