First Contract

Nyx Ashborne has forty-five days to find five thousand credits—or she disappears.

Street-smart and survival-hardened, Nyx has made it this far in the Rust district through quick thinking and quicker reflexes. But when a cryptocurrency crash wipes out her savings and leaves her drowning in debt to the city's most dangerous gang, her usual hustles won't cut it.

The neon-soaked streets of Neo-Cascadia's lower tiers offer plenty of ways to make money—none of them safe, most of them degrading, all of them too slow. With each passing day, the enforcers get closer and her options get fewer.

In a city where your body is just another commodity and desperation makes people do unthinkable things, Nyx will discover exactly how far she's willing to go to survive. Because in the shadows of the corporate towers, there are always people willing to pay—if you're willing to sell.

Follow Nyx as she navigates the brutal economics of survival in a world where everything has a price, and sometimes the cost of living is higher than you ever imagined.