The Sovereign City-State of Roma, 2139 A.D. A once-prominent American scientist is murdered on the cobblestone streets, dying in the arms of her husband of eighty-five years. The killer disappears into the night. On his trail is Virata Das. Exiled from her home, trapped working for criminals, she is desperate and dangerous, propelled by grief, driven by her memories of the dead. She will stop at nothing to have her revenge. But the grief she feels is not her own. The memories are not from her life. The vengeance she seeks is not her vengeance... ... she is just a proxy.