Bicameral

Centuries of global environmental catastrophe have chased humanity into crowded megacities encased in shields of protective plasma. Virtual Reality addiction, drugs, overpopulation, and disease chew away at the poor living in the Narrows while Trinity City's elites enjoy the fresher air and greater comforts in the Straights above.

Oppression leaves little room for empathy.

When the poor disappear, desperate families who can afford it turn to freelance investigators like Keyhinde Akerele to find them.

When Kay and her sister Ori discover a connection between a dead Riser with a sinister symbol carved into his flesh, a missing woman, and a mysterious book, the investigation takes them on a journey where gangs challenge elites for power, an ultra-wealthy cult dabbles in the supernatural, electric beasts materialize out of the shadows, the dead don't stay dead, and a sleeping god known only as the Dreamer threatens to tear Kay and Ori apart forever.