Klale Renhardt arrives in 22nd century Vancouver seeking opportunity—only to find that life is tough in an ungoverned Downtown crowded with refugees who flooded in during the Collapse. When Klale gets a job at the notorious KlonDyke nightclub, she befriends the bartender. But Toni has a dark past and an alarming connection to Blade, the giant, bio-altered slave of a sadistic blackmailer.