A quiet young man adopts a stray kitten and braces for the usual: fish, chaos, fur on everything. What he gets is a cat that raids the salad drawer, turns its nose up at tuna, and seems to follow far more of what he says than any cat should.

A broken vow, a star on the way down, and a meeting neither of them saw coming.

He needed work, and the finance firm that hired him seemed ordinary enough. Then he found out what the company actually lends, who collects it, and what happens to the new guy who asks one question too many.

On streets where everyone looks out for themselves, one quiet man starts standing between the strong and the weak. Word of what he can do travels faster than he does — and the more people hear, the clearer it gets that he is far more dangerous than he looks. Whatever he left behind is bigger than any of them guessed.

A young man with nothing to his name walks into the city's oldest organization and starts climbing. Every floor he rises costs him something he cannot buy back — and the men above him are beginning to notice how fast he is moving.

Will he become a monster… or something far worse?