Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. The West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the US into a broken, dangerous land. Pity is offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great, and she soon finds herself in the dark and twisted underbelly of a corrupt city.