Alex West never felt at home in the Perfect City, a city of white patrolled by sinister men in black. A city where neglecting your obligations resulted in severe punishment if not your disappearance. A convenient case of mistaken identity sees Alex thrust into the ongoing war the city has kept secret. Allies, forged not through allegiance, but through the tangled strings of puppets and puppet masters remain all that can keep Alex from certain death. But deep within the old tunnels Alex finds that death may not be so final for some of the inhabitants of the city above, those chosen few who are forever destined to be shadows in the only place they have ever called Home.