‘Just to reiterate, now we’re on the same page, I need a gun and I need to get out of here.’

Alexia Slade is being held prisoner in a place that exists outside of space and time. She will need all her cunning – and the remains of her sanity – if she ever hopes to escape and return home.

Jay Wulf has found a way through the Black Circle and out the other side. He gathers old allies and risky new ones as he sets out to explore a futuristic and yet completely broken world.

They will need all the help they can get. For this world is controlled and manipulated from the shadows, by somebody known only as the Spider. And he has taken quite the interest in the newcomers . . .