Sunny, a scrapper and her father's daughter till the end, has held a secret in her teeth so long she's worried her jaw might just snap. She'll be alright if she can fulfill her father's dying wish? that is, if she can make it that far.

Shui, yet another bandit out in the Wastes, has lived a kicked-dog life so long he can no longer see beyond the boot. Between an employer who only sees him as fodder and a boss that only sees him as trouble, the boot's coming down one way or the other.

Xal, a wandering gunslinger, should be dead? but that ain't nothing new.

It's a fight for survival down in the derelict depths of an abandoned 'Fore-Folk lab, between the horrid technology of the past, the pack of bandits pointing guns at Sunny and Xal, and the ghosts haunting the very environment they're in? and if none of those do them in, the secrets held between them just might.

This is the sixth book in the 12 Months of Whump series. Each month in 2025, look out for a new standalone whumpy book!