When you’re Stained, patches of skin glisten like liquid starlight, and sooner or later, his creatures find you.   

In a world of curfews and body raiders, where people huddle in bunkers to avoid being taken by the invading Rhemans, nineteen-year-old Kyjta has one objective: to rescue her young charge, Calipsie. Forming an improbable alliance with the enemy, a Rheman named Kranik, Kyjta must not only save Calipsie, but also face down the Rheman overlord who’s taken a disturbing interest in her.