Two hundred years ago, the Roaches swept across the Earth, annihilating everything in their path. Humanity's survivors retreated behind the walls of Acadia, a militarized city where every citizen's worth is measured by a ruthless merit score. Earn enough points, and you live in safety. Fall short, and you're Rifted-cast into the depths beyond salvation. Jessica is a girl on the edge of that fate, forced into the Mahghetto-an unforgiving gauntlet where failure is fatal.
Cojax is a young soldier from the city's lower tiers, desperate to prove himself in a society that sees him as expendable. When a strange presence is discovered beyond the Wall, the two are thrust into a conspiracy that could topple Acadia's rigid order and ignite a war it cannot win. In Acadia, loyalty is rewarded. until the day it kills you.
Two hundred years ago, the Roaches swept across the Earth, annihilating everything in their path. Humanity's survivors retreated behind the walls of Acadia, a militarized city where every citizen's worth is measured by a ruthless merit score. Earn enough points, and you live in safety. Fall short, and you're Rifted-cast into the depths beyond salvation. Jessica is a girl on the edge of that fate, forced into the Mahghetto-an unforgiving gauntlet where failure is fatal.
Cojax is a young soldier from the city's lower tiers, desperate to prove himself in a society that sees him as expendable. When a strange presence is discovered beyond the Wall, the two are thrust into a conspiracy that could topple Acadia's rigid order and ignite a war it cannot win. In Acadia, loyalty is rewarded. until the day it kills you.