"The truth is, this is already Hell." After waking up in the morgue of an abandoned sanitarium, Rey has only a toe tag to her name and no recollection as to how she got there. In a country staggered by a global war called the Long Winter, she will also find herself in its capitol now reigned under martial law by a totalitarian government, which alters the personalities of some of its citizens with what is known as the Permutation Regimen. As a result of this regimen, riots have stirred the city by a group of activists calling themselves the Vorpals, orchestrated by a man named David Wednesday...

In the autumn of 1684, two children find a dead man in a field. Within minutes, however, the dead man starts coming back to life. As if the transition isn't enough of an agonizing process, he also finds that he shares an empathic connection to the people and world around him. Rather than running in terror, eleven-year-old Joanna Spijker expresses an odd fascination with the newly revived young man, even bringing him home and giving him a new name: Vincent. As years go by, Vincent grows content with his new name and life with the Spijker family. But time proves to be his greatest enemy, when...

"The only certainty was going forward." The year is 2129 in Ashwater, Washington. It was considered to be one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the Western Order: That day, eighteen years ago, the Battle-Brave weapon rendered the capitol into a place of death and debris. Only nobody really knows what the Battle-Brave truly is, even nearly two decades after the event. Most had claimed it to be a bomb, given the mass destruction it had left in its way. This is why Sergeant Stone, an operative of the Eastside Republic, is sent to infiltrate Ashwater to retrieve it. Knowing that it has...

"This is your wakeup call, Mr. Wakeman..." Nothing has been the same since the Second Cataclysm had left the Capitol of the Western Order in ruins. Years later, people have picked up the scattered pieces and managed to rebuild their lives. Fugitives have even adapted to the change in management under new identities. Tejinder Wakeman, former Archiver and descendant of the original chancellors, does not have the luxury of starting a new life. Not only is he driven into hiding as an outlaw working for a cyberterrorist organization, but he learns that he has become a bargaining chip against a...