This future sci-fi fantasy follows the progression of a few main characters as they navigate their unique spheres of life in the year 2242.  The story focuses heavily on themes of guilt, personal failing, and penance.  The conflict revolves around two main concepts: Man vs. Himself (Internal conflict) and Man vs Man (External conflict).  The internal conflicts focus on many of the characters' inner demons and how each of them deal with the scars of the past.  The external conflict centers around a mysterious criminal organization called Nexus that conducts human trafficking.  There are three groups of main characters.  The first group belong to a vigilante mercenary organization called Ab Aeterno.  Titus, Venna, and Benjamin are Achilles team.  This team is a part of Ab Aeterno's special forces branch which is designated Demon Stalkers.  Their goal and mission is to perform assassinations, abductions, and destabilization operations on criminal organizations throughout the solar system.  Their current mission places them directly in the path of Nexus.  Titus interacted with them in his past and they seem to have unlimited reach, resources, and power.  As the team faces this threat, old wounds will surface and dangerous connections to the past will emerge. The second group of characters are on the Mars colony.  Randal Page is an analyst for a talent scout company on Mars.  He is faced with the reality that the company he thought he was working for is in fact Nexus.  His story centers around his coming to realize the duplicity of the company he works for and then his response to the startling realization of his own ignorant involvement.  Also on Mars is a woman named FaRarra Njokko.  She is a Nexus sex slave in a brothel on Mars and is known by the stage name of Stardust.  She is striving to escape when her path crosses with Randal. The final main character is Preston Coretel.  He is a monk with a mysterious and shady past.  He is on the run from Nexus in more ways than one. He is seeking sanctuary on an abandoned monastery space station in order to avoid agents of Nexus and to atone for his previous involvement with Nexus.