Philip Lew is an ex-cop who just wanted to get away from Earth and the freak show it has become. Looking back, perhaps Hades was not the ideal spot for him to settle down. An artificial satellite owned and inhabited by The Darker Society -- an organization formed to guard the rights of society's latest minority? If trendy vampires, werewolves, and such were too much to take on Earth, imagine them in close quarters. But, even in a paradise like Hades, all is not rosy. Someone, alive or undead, has decided to decrease the population, one citizen at a time. And these dead are NOT coming back to life. Or death. They're just not coming back. So, what fool decided Philip was the man to solve the crimes?