Jayden wasn't content with his mediocre life; he didn't want to just scrape by every day. No, he wanted something… more. But when his grand plans of escaping poverty fail miserably, he is left with nothing. Now, burdened by a crippling debt and forced into servitude, he must embark on a daring expedition into the ancient tunnels beneath the city in search of a hidden treasure rumored to be there. Yet, down in the Ratways, things rarely go smoothly. When a disaster strikes their small party, Jayden finds himself lost in the darkness. Abandoned and left to die by his fellows, he refuses to succumb to such fate and struggles with everything he has to find a way out. In the end, he didn't find a way out. However, he found something else—something that had the potential to change his pitiful life forever.