The once utopian Chasm City has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized-leaving only the most wretched, grim sort of existence. It is through this city that Tanner Mirabel must pursue a lowlife postmortal-only to be taken far beyond the mere settling of a score to come face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.