Falling… Towards the beast with a thousand eyes… The beast that lives in the mist…Jacob Conway is a Junior reporter with the WMC, the World Media Corporation. And he hates heights! So why… oh why… would anyone want to assign him to one of the most prestigious, and tallest, of the city states in the Americas?When a terrorist bomb explodes in the heart of The Capitol, killing at least twenty-three diners, Jacob is sent, along with his colleague Yuri Dobryivechir, to investigate. Was the bombing somehow connected to the recent capitol one disaster and the clandestine activities of the WMC? And what does it have to do with the recent disappearances of the WMC reporter Kyle Anders and the mysterious Ezra Caine?Was his assignment a mistake? A coincidence? And why is he suspect number one?

Jacob and Rebecca are exiles. Accused of crimes they did not commit, they have escaped into the wild scablands surrounding the city of New Chicago, where they are left to face the ghouls, pirates, and other dangers that stalk those wastes.Turisa Allen is a reporter for the World Media Corporation, living and working in the AEREs city state of Colombus. A city doomed to dwindle and die as its inhabitants succumb to a mysterious disease that has rendered them sterile. An affliction much like her own… Tammy lives in exile too, removed from her humanity as much as the people she loves. Having been altered by Antoine Destrier, using the secrets of genetic manipulation formulated by the once love of her life, Ezra Caine, she is no longer entirely human. But why? What could he hope to gain?Jacob and Rebecca are wanderers bereft of a home.Tammy is a woman bereft of her humanity.Turisa is a woman bereft of a child.They are all: Exiles…