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Young Klale Renhardt chafes at the confines of life in the Fishers Guild in her north coast town. But when she flees to Vancouver, Klale discovers that survival is bitterly difficult on the half drowned, ungoverned island of "Downtown," where beggars line the streets and every type of trade is controlled by tongs and gangs. When she finds a job through Toni, the tough, beautiful American bartender at the famous KlonDyke nightclub, Klale begins to feel safe--until she hears that Toni may have once been a torturer for the tongs.
Worse, Toni seems to have a disturbing connection to Blade, the bio-altered slave of Downtown's most feared blackmailer, Choi Shung Wai. Blade is Choi's enforcer, and Klale, like everyone else, fears the rage that simmers behind the giant's eyes. When Klale attracts the vengeful attention of a hidden enemy, Blade may be the only person who can save her. But Blade's psyche has been so profoundly twisted by Choi's neural implants that he doesn't even know he's human. If Klale can't find a way to help him discover his own soul, she may not survive either her murderous enemy or the looming tong war....