At Badger Springs, a forbidden scientific test tore through the fabric of the world, swallowing innocent lives and leaving behind silence, lies, and a single survivor. Victoria Lanell.

Now an adult, Lanell is a gifted but deeply scarred ferret woman haunted by vivid nightmares of the day her parents vanished beneath the earth at Badger Springs. She works inside the very research complex tied to the tragedy, unaware that the disaster was no accident, and that powerful forces are still manipulating events from the shadows.