The US Dollar has died. In the chaotic aftermath, the ravaged Earth has become an even more dark and dangerous world. Countless millions died in the Water Wars and the culling that followed. Billions more died from the germ warfare that mutated into an incurable plague. Is that why there are no more male babies? Ellen, a lone warrior with rare talents, is on the run. Her Greenland security business has failed. With her lover executed for treason, she's fleeing to London, a crumbling backwater where she'll have only her own wits and her own skills to rely on. Will she be forced to join the Jays, London's struggling band of freedom fighters? Or will K, the ruthless and elusive Controller of the city, stretch out his claws to scoop her up? For those special skills make her a target. Both sides want her. And if they can't recruit her, they'll kill her.