Allison Windgate is a successful automaton and difference engineer, who has managed to build a lucrative business with the help of her agent, Claude Samson. All is not well in the Empire, however; the uneasy truce with the United Eastern States is on the brink of failure. Conspiracy is ever present, right below the surface. The night holds new and old horrors.
Can Allison and Claude weather the ever growing intrigue without knowing who their friends and foes are?