After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell leaves school and gets a job to try and support her family and keep her alcoholic father away.

But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest in his crew of freaks, to kidnap people off the street. Most of them are never seen again, killed or driven mad by Kore’s experiments.

Eden manages to get a job in the government’s Archives, taking the place of one of Kore’s victims, but Izrod continues to snatch government employees. Is Eden safe? What is Kore planning? Will this mean the end of Sendirian City?