Since she was very young, Cordelia Verhive VI has been hounded by bizarre nightmares. Now 35, she's just beginning to understand. The year is 5334. Humanity as it was once known has been nearly extinct for hundreds of years. In a desolate world of gun-metal grey city-splinters and roiling flesh-rivers, the survivors, reshaped by choices and circumstances, struggle to find a place in what's left of the world.