Yume is a Splinter, a citizen of the lowest tier in a city rigidly separated into three levels of quality of life. Following those before her, she kept her nose down and worked endless days, believing this was the path to ascend. After failing her final chance to move up, she uncovers the city’s gruesome secret: they harvest the bodies of the lowest tier, giving those at the top everlasting life. Her formative years have now been reduced to livestock on a path to the butcher. Emboldened by rage and the fleeting potential of reuniting with her parents, she seeks to infiltrate the higher tiers and bring this system to its knees. For fans of “Red Rising” and “Neuromancer”, this book is a gut wrenching look at the horrors of human desire framed in an extravagant world.