Once, this world was dominated with the fallen, but humanity solid off their tyrannical rule and created a mighty Empire with colonies disseminate across the globe. The power from the metropolis is normally stronger than ever before, but its previous can be dark and its future cloudy. Aged secrets are capable of destroying in one moment what required years to generate. After all, nothing can save it from treason, not armadas of battleships nor bomb-laden dirigibles.

The key to one such secret, by happenstance and inheritance, has fallen in to the hands of Leopold Orso, a former police investigator who now works as a private detective. His illustrious skill allows him to create other people’s concerns to life, but it also will not help him extricate himself from the web of another’s scheming. Beat threatens to result in imminent death. Success beckons with the ghost of a chance to escape with his existence. His soul is suffering from painstakingly forgotten recollections. And to believe that all Leopold ever wished was to obtain an inheritance that was his by birthright.