One death, two nations on the brink of war, and four people fighting the ghosts of their past.
Mick O'Driscoll has a problem. A man has died in the Scrambles, and nothing happens in the Scrambles without his permission, or so he thought. The death spells trouble and O'Driscoll knows it. The question is, who killed the Prime Delegate's brother on his turf and why?
Set two years after the events of Second Chance, Absent Souls follows the story of four people struggling to deal with events in the present while tormented by events from the past: an Investigator, tortured by the memory of a man he couldn't find and a crime he was unable solve; a crime lord, forced to live a life he inherited but never truly wanted; a Professor, using academic success to drown out his guilt; and a Global Governance operative, slowly becoming the very thing she's fighting against.
Forced to work with those they distrust in an effort to uncover the truth, it soon becomes clear that it's not just their own lives they need to protect, but the very future of humanity that's at stake.