When the world ends, chaos begins--for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bits; for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to the real world; and for Ari Regon, caught between dangerous jealousy and passionate love, corporate war and ambition so intense that failure is death, making the party to end all parties a party that never ends. Dark times. Dark dreams.