Publisher's Synopsis
Caught in the middle of a dying, dwindling District, in a City of Eternal Darkness, and wondering what in the hell went wrong. Living in the Sanctuary City of Mephistopolis, one of just dozens of locations where the lights are still on, humankind simply tries to put the pieces together, resigned in the fact that nobody is coming to rescue them anymore.Alex West must navigate the streets of Mephistopolis' Amber District to maintain a rapidly decaying society. But even as he works to enforce the company policy of the Section Security Agency, there is much behind the scenes that City Officials aren't telling him, forcing Alex to ally with the only friend and Amber Celadon Relations Agent that works the beat with him to try and curb the stint of criminal Passport forgeries coming up, and in a City District that already has a lingering problem with undocumented Citizens filtering through from the other Sanctuary Cities, where the lights are starting to blink out.He and Rain have been in the thick of it, but she has her own motives-and she doesn't turn down the chance to have Alex help her out, tit-for-tat, in exchange to investigate the dwindling Citizen count pouring in from other Sanctuary Cities, watching from a distance as the lights of each City slowly starts to grow dark, and blink from existence.Both Alex and Rain Ocampo aren't just the D.I.S.A. Agents establishing law and order in Amber, they are the first line of defense for the whole of Mephistopolis; protecting the Inner City that they've never set eyes on, and stands protected beyond the high walls of Celadon's borders. But as they both delve into the depths of their own individual cases, they find a point where they start to intersect.Is Mephistopolis hiding a darker secret in its pitch-black streets? And why are the other Cities suddenly going dark?
