James Bethesda is comfortably depressed with his job as a host, his dreams of greatness, and his nightly binging and spying on the attractive and mysterious man from the corner restaurant. .

. but in a single night involving Angel Force law enforcement, a mysterious hideaway, and a deadly stranger he will discover just how close to the knife's edge he has been living.

Welcome to Bremmyn, the isolated, democratic island nation where Thieves, Musicians, and Angels seek to live out their lives together, while the wealthy, powerful, and connected move the citizenry about in a deadly game of life and death, oppression and resistance. Through the lens of James, the Child of Bremmyn, Detective Fray, of Angel Force, The Cat, the mysterious mentor, and Petra Tollen, Queen of Thieves, discover how democracy falls, values are betrayed, and individual citizens lead revolutions.

This non-magical fantasy- early Game of Thrones meets The Hunger Games- covers themes of revolution, depression, justice, oppression, leadership, and the consequences of history, seen all through the eyes of the every day people of a metropolis. .