Decades ago, a monstrous virus devastated the world, twisting the minds and bodies of its victims into a fragmented state between human and animal. On top of the shreds of the remaining U.S. cities, the megacorporation Aurora built a safe haven they dubbed 'The Emerald Abode' - a taste of human society sheltered from the wilderness overtaken by the hybrid beasts. In an attempt to repay her crushing debt, Alicia 'AJ' Jordans joins Aurora's Monster Control division, where she meets Rendall Renfeld - an uncertain and seemingly misguided trainee who may have greater plans than just getting food on the table... Suddenly, her world is thrown awry when she encounters something Aurora shouldn't have. Within it, something else that it shouldn't have, either. Now with a Pandora's box of horrors unlike anything she'd ever known, she must decide its fate before other interested parties destroy what could be a shared last hope. Of course, it's hard to save something when it's trying to destroy you.