Only two civilizations remain: those inside, and those below. One dead girl will unravel it all. Something is rotting in the city of Emaldin. Citizens spend their days slaving away under the brutal, all-seeing eye of the Council for a chance to get closer to the towering structure at the centre of the city, and the safety and utopia it promises. Valencia was meant to be one of the lucky ones. Plucked from a life of crime, the Institute promised her a ticket to an easier life inside of the Pod- or so they claimed. Instead, she found herself reawakening at the bottom of a polluted river, back from the dead with a lethal touch. For years, Valencia has kept her identity secret, slipping under the radar of the Council as the deadly shadow of one of Emaldin''s most dangerous, always believing that what happened to her was an accident to be made the best of. A weapon, for her to wield. Until she realizes she hasn''t been the one wielding it. Until the wrong life, at the wrong time, gets cut short. On the run, she is reunited with Eli - a ghost from her past with the most nebulous of loyalties. She must work to untangle the web of deceit surrounding the Institute and find the truth of Emaldin... even if it means letting go of every truth she''s ever known.