It's the winter solstice in a Philadelphia that has been eroded by extreme weather economic collapse and disease-carrying mosquitoes. The Saturnalia carnival is about to begin - an evening on which nearly everyone rich or poor forgets their troubles for a moment. Nina hasn't attended Saturnalia in three years since she walked away from the elite Saturn Club. But when she gets a chance call from Max her last remaining friend from the Club Nina will put on a dress of blackest black and attend the wild solstice masquerade the biggest party of the year on a mysterious errand she can't turn down. Before the night is over she will become the custodian of a horrifying secret - and the target of a mysterious hunter. Nina is forced to confront her past so she can finally take charge of her own and perhaps everyone else's future.
