Mark Twelve-a gleaming metropolis ruled by technocratic elites and ritual order. Log your dailies on the IPF. The cleanest logs lie best. Ahra Fluoresce grows up believing the system rewards good ideas and qualities, like honesty. But she is competing among the elite at the Pavilion of Tomorrow, where not only her knowledge but also her conscience will be tested. Ansin Boemn lost his conscience long ago. And when his energy grid restoration campaign backfires in the most unexpected ways, the war he once waged against the sister Mark turns inward, to the people of Mark Twelve.

Order is supposed to save them. It won't.