"The truth always comes into the light."

Aethelgard is a Knight Investigator in the Pyramid, the political center of the ancient, shattered city known as Redemption. As a master of observation and deduction, nothing gets by him. But, when confronted with mysteries involving deadly and mysterious artifacts of the Ancients, even he knows when to ask for help. That's where Actaeon, the renowned Prince Engineer of Raedelle, comes in. Both are experts in their own domains, and, with their combined minds on the case, no crime will remain unsolved.

Join Act and Aeth as they set out to investigate mysteries beyond imagining. These eleven strange tales straight out of science fiction will baffle and delight, including:

• After an artifact hunter is killed in Capsule, a broken image projector left behind reveals secrets from the far past.
• In Memory's Edge, a deadly killer uses an artifact spear to commit public executions of Readers that work in an archive of the Ancients.
• People are compelled to enter an artifact room that kills them in The Sapphire Crucible.
• A woman and her attacker disappear into thin air on the Avenue of Glass, which leads the investigators straight into Retribution's Maw.
• As an engineering team works to repair an ancient transport machine in The Tubeway Murder, one of them dies in a suspicious manner.

With their collective intellect, can this unlikely team keep the denizens of Pyramid safe? Or will they meet their match when they encounter Aethelgard's old nemesis?