Shale is dying. A vast, chaotic, monster-bearing storm known only as the
Roil is expanding, consuming the land. The last humans are fighting back
with ever more bizarre new machines, but the Roil seems unstoppable.
Whole cities have been consumed--where once there were twelve, now only
four remain.
It's up to a decadent wastrel, a four thousand year-old man, and a young
woman bent on revenge, to try to save their city--and the world.