In a far distant future, humanity is on the verge of collapse. Held together by a puritanical dictatorship, they fight a covert and brutal war against the occult, trying to contain a terrible power that was set loose hundreds of years ago.
On a remote colony in this xenophibic realm, lurking amidst the seething multitudes of the derelict and swollen megalopolis, a small group of ancient vampiric beings hide from persecution.
When they find themselves caught up in a plot that spans millennia and encompasses thousands of worlds and dozens of races, they quickly realize that the one commodity they believed they had in endless supply - time, is now rapidly running out.
Plot and counterplot run rampant in this sci-fi vampire saga set in a futuristic metropolitan nightmare.