On Malthus, almost everything is run by one power plant. It just works that way. Half-Felin. Famous. Leader of the Alley Cat guild. But also 14. Sylvina Chrysalis Nicolina Malvolioni-Brentons is all that and more. Running a guild is not easy, for the guilds are for the outcast and the discriminated, not the soft and weak. But she adores her life. Then, one day, the power goes out, destroying the forcefield that protects the city from the Maulers, a deadly, goblin-like race of aliens with a liking for freshly spilled blood. Together with the seven other guilds and her best friend and bodyguard, Colton Ness, She journeys across the remains of the destroyed city. But when mauler attacks become more frequent, she finds a strange creature she calls Windsor, the guilds start to collapse, and her feelings for Colton start to change, she finds out life isn't so easy when you are trying to save the last of the human race.