Fifteen-year-old Shentelle is running from her past. Equipped with the city's most-advanced implant, she needs her close friends to survive. When one of them is killed by a peculiar market vendor, Shentelle tries to hide her identity before falling sick from a deadly disease.As transgression explodes on the streets of Thicket, Shentelle's illness triggers a relentless adversary into stealing a secret device, the comp-ucube. Motivated by greed and god-like control over the entire population, only the faithless are willing to sacrifice their humanity to be in charge of everyone.To survive, Shentelle must trust Oscar Sunder, an off-the-grid specialist who helped design a way for humans to live forever.In an era of body modifications and second chances, Oscar's archaic method of deduction may be exactly what Shentelle needs to reconcile her past. Together, Oscar and Shentelle will discover a purpose far greater than salvaging the last stronghold on the planet, a tale of hope for the human race, and proof that god exists in the city of Thicket.