IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT...

Low-level programmer Roy Kilaro wants nothing more than to become a Seraphim—an elite corporation operative—and experience some real action in the shadow ops between the megacorporations. But he gets more than he ever wanted when a routine business trip to Boston thrusts him into a running battle for survival. The combatants: a group of hardened shadowrunners trying to finish a job, the ruthless anti-elven terrorists known as the Knights of the Red Branch, and a powerful sorceress who wants revenge upon them all. In way over his head, Roy has to come to grips with the deadly dangers of the shadows, as well as the ruthless enemies closing in on him if he's going to make it out of the city in one piece...