A side-story to my YA dystopian novel, 'Rooks of the Knot', set three years prior to those events. Almost a thousand years in the future, the world we know is gone. Thousands of miles of land and ocean away from Camelot and the Rooks (known as 'Privateers' to outsiders) the former USA has its own problems to deal with, as five major power blocs struggle for control of the continent. In their midst is No-Man's-Land, land uncontrolled and mostly unwanted by the five powers. But in No-Man's-Land is a research facility; a facility controlled by the totalitarian Arcadia, within sight of the loosely-governed Republic of Greater California, and recently destroyed by fighters from the United Empire of the Caribbean--somehow leaving no survivors on either side. But why? And what had the facility been researching? A group of popular vigilantes based in California called 'The Six' have come to investigate, along with a most unwelcome group of scavengers working for a powerful drug baroness. One member of the Six, Rosebud--called 'The Georgian', is plagued by her connection to this baroness, her doubts over her leader's actions, and by her lack of knowledge concerning one of her teammates, the mysterious 'Prophet'. But Rosebud has to keep her head. There are a thousand different dangers in the world she lives in, and something all new and possibly more dangerous than any other hidden within this facility...