Synopsis: From the back cover of the Ace first edition: "In Quantum Moon Denise Vitola created a nightmare vision of the future, an Earth with a minimum of peace, beauty and natural resources - and a maximum of government corruption, control and greed. Now Vitola returns to that gritty, desperate world. The world of Detective Ty Merrick. Winter grips District One like a steel fist. Even the most basic resources are stretched to the breaking point. And Ty Merrick, weathering the psychological ravages of her lycanthropy, is busy. Three members of a secret sect - known as the Opalite - have been murdered. Now, under the suspicious eyes of the government, Ty must venture into the frozen fringes of a bankrupt society where the Opalite keeps its secrets. Where the natural and supernatural collide. Where only a lycanthrope would feel at home."