Ruin

It is 2052. The cities have long been abandoned after riots, famine, plagues, and pollution have made them practically unlivable. Scattered and broken remnants of a once prosperous civilization remain. Most of the surviving citizens have pledged their loyalty and their livelihood to company communities built around the core of a once thriving metropolis. The government uses company created regulations to pass legislation that government agents strictly enforce in order to forward their own agenda of strategized population control. Government auditors dictate who can have children and who can keep their children with brutal and sinister results. Municipal schools prepare the next generation for a life of unquestioning servitude. Religious zealots control the citizens with fear and unflinching power within the communities. Some of those not willing to live by company rules remain hidden in places liked the Under where they can indulge in the vices forbidden by the companies. While living in the Under and working for drug kingpin (a “Big” as they are known) Beltane, messenger Ruin Orbona searches for her missing drug addicted brother, Ezra, who was last said to be in the Deadlands just beyond the city limits. When a domestic terrorist group known as the Uprising takes an interest in Beltane, he sends Ruin, with fellow dwellers of the Under, Logan and Zeke, on a quest to see the other “Big”, Mission, who is living in the Outskirts just past the Bhadralok Complex where the elite live in morbid decadence and blissful naivety. MIssion knows the agenda of the Uprising but he can be a very unpredictable and sadistic ally. Rumor has it that the Uprising are searching for an auditor, Eris Walker, who may be the key to taking down politicians and executives that run this corrupt system. What unfolds is a web of deception and whispers that are bound to reveal many horrific truths. Time is closing in until dubious intentions, lies, and secrets are destined to be revealed. Ruin knows she must face the deadly backlash of what she knows, what she has done, and what she has kept hidden. Finding her way home becomes a journey of violence, sex, murder, and deception. As each hour passes and events unfold the determination to save herself and her brother leads her back to a past that threatens to kill them both and destroy the Under.