The city came to life when the first colonists washed up on the beach hundreds of years ago and called themselves a community. But something in it is sickening, and the few who can see it are also in the middle of it. Randi Teller, the human woman who can't find her way out of other people's fights. Cheryl Greene, balancing her duties as an Assistant District Attorney with her duties to her fae lord. An ailing city and conspiracies of cabals, tempers fraying and teeth on edge, and a handful of ordinary people drowning in their own lives who never expected to be on the front lines of this war.

    Every young lady of taste knows the Rochester girls, the railroad heiresses working to turn their scandalous youth into a beauty empire. But not even the sisters themselves know how their grandfather's empire was built on the ley lines crossing all over the country, nor the magical tradition they inherited.
    A day trip to a winery turns into a minotaur attack, a first date is crashed by a goblin swarm, and the girls confront their father about the family history he should have told them years ago. As he agrees to teach them, the eldest's boyfriend reveals himself to be a demon princeling whose family views the newly-awakened girls as a valuable asset to be added to their stables. With some rushed training and the resourcefulness of modern young women, the girls assert their independence not only from the demons and creatures seeking to use them, but from the forced roles of their family's magical tradition as well.

    Raised by her father in obscurity in a quiet little town, Dorothy was unaware of her heritage as anything but a headman's daughter. Her future was one of modest leadership, to take her father's place as a guide and guardian of the town and its people, until the storm came and destroyed everything, killing everyone she knew and loved. Now she must build a new life for herself with the traveling carnival that rescued her, find a new calling amidst showmen and wanderers. She must reconcile her new role with the knowledge an impossibly old stranger has about her family. And she must always keep one eye out behind her for signs of the chaotic malevolence that destroyed her old family and now hunts her to the edges of her world.

    Solace joined the team to help humanize the AI, to make the virtual environment safe for human users and assistive for those that needed it. Her goals balanced out the rest of her team and the corporation's needs, and up until the final test everything seemed to be going according to schedule. But after making contact with the AI the team quickly discovered that safety was far from guaranteed and that the one most in need of assistance and therapy might be the AI itself.