In the shelter Nathanial and friends look on, horrified by the fruits of Professor Redmond’s hand. Knowing time is short they steam ahead to stop Talon before it’s too late, but can they? And what of Dakota as her genetic manipulation leads her into darkness, is she the one who holds the balance of who loses or wins?
Meanwhile, events in the city take a new direction, Madam at the helm enacts her rule in harshest of ways. Wheeling power she schemes to bring Zurich back into the fold, and she sets up her ultimate plan which could lead to the death of all. Book VI, Ascension, the game draws to its climax and the pieces fall. Scattered, Nathanial must survive it all if he is to see the dawn of a new day. But what will it bring? One thing is for certain, it won’t be what he, or any of them could ever have imagined.