Ross finds himself wandering the streets one night, bleeding from the head and unable to remember the past year and a half yet called to the crime scene of a grisly murder.

Amid friends and strangers who he's supposed to know, he sets out to unravel more than one mystery.

​Stephen Leeds is no ordinary genius. He's several. With the assistance of his internal entourage, he gets hired to track down a stolen piece of technology that can photograph the past. From security to handwriting experts, his aspects provide invaluable insights along the way. The price, buying several first-class seats to cross the ocean and hiring Uber to transport his errant aspects from one place to another.

​Ceony knows the secret of the Excisioners, dark magicians who bond to human flesh to control and terrorize their victims and enemies. However, as Emery Thane's apprentice and love interest, she knows there are some lines one does not cross no matter how beneficial it might appear.

​No family. No friends. No lovers. No ties of any kind.
That's life in the Universal Protectors, and Nakio Atana wouldn't have it any other way.