Cascadia City is gritty, urban, and running on the tension between a human population that does not want to acknowledge what lives alongside it and a vampire community that is done being ignored. You are a journalist who came to investigate the power struggle and has been pulled into the middle of it. The contacts you develop define your access to the truth: Lex Haxion is a dhampir detective who operates in the shadows between both communities; Ethan Crestwood is a human entrepreneur whose polished exterior covers secrets that do not stay buried; Atticus Di Matteo leads the vampire resistance and considers transparency a tactical decision, not a principle.