The people of New Culmont have more to fear than the Inquisition and gospog attacks. Their young women are being murdered, their bodies stripped of cyberware. The bloody trail leads into the GodNet, where spectral figures have been seen and a strange, ebon-hued creature has torn apart innocent deckers. From a trial by fire to battles with horrors both in and out of the Net, the Knights must into a whirlpool of fear if they wish to save the lives of thousands.