Raised in the Gray Town slums, Isolde Ulatis knew nothing but back-breaking work and hiding her capabilities. Her brother Brady, mysteriously murdered for treason he didn't commit, haunts her every moment when her strange behavior is exposed to Security. Now facing arrest, she must follow her brother's footsteps and rise above her city's imprisonment. Red as the dawn.

(OC) Pinfeathers leads the other Nocs along with the Mistress, Lilith, in search of one girl who could possibly change the whole story. When she is sent by Lilith to capture the heart of Varen Nethers, the young girl, Raven, soon finds herself trapped inside her own love directed toward someone besides Varen.