2048: the city of Adelaide - the capital of South Australia - has grown, developed, changed. The population has doubled, and the city's livelihood is high technology. A new university has grown up since the Twenties - Franklin University, in the hills above the city. It's the home to Doctor Robert Strachan's Paranormal Studies department, where Lee Ronson and Brendan Scott head the data analysis team. They're the best in a difficult business, and they'll be tested to their limits in an assignment handed to Strachan by Metro's most senior criminologist, DCS Maggie Jarmin. It's winter when the city suffers a series of bizarre murders, robberies at high-tech labs - and a virus which sprang from nowhere. Every two days, a fresh body is discovered ... entirely drained of blood. Every two days, a weapons research or energy technologies facility is robbed of a seemingly bizarre list of oddments. Meanwhile, the virus known only by a codename - 2048-3a - is so new, no part of the community is immune and the city is crippled. Murders, robberies and virus are intimately connected in a mystery that will astonish. Lee Ronson and Brendan Scott find themselves taking point in an investigation filled with unexpected hazard - and equally unforeseen reward. Sexy very-near-future gay action/adventure from the pen of the maestro.