Roseport is a fairly normal city. It has its attractions, a lovely coastline, its suburbs, and its not-so-pleasant areas. It also has deep subways and abandoned sewers and pockets that hold deeply sunk sections of the city, lost in an earthquake nearly half a century before.In one such pocket lives four brothers and their foster father, hidden deep away from the prying eyes of humanity, because they are not, entirely, human.Jonathan and his brothers could only be content hiding so deep underground for so long, and as soon as their father would allow it, they began venturing out into the old subways, clearing out the gangs and drugs and declaring the forgotten places where the homeless gathered as their turf. After a while, they began to expand their protected area into the city above. Masked, gloved, and completely hidden, they maintained the safety of "their city"--until a new power moved in.The gangs are uniting instead of squabbling with each other, and a cult thought long gone has resurfaced, with a new leader at its front who has money, charm, and some strange abilities of his own. Coinciding with this new rival, Jonathan finds a dying woman in the snow. With her complete lack of reaction to his unearthly appearance, Jonathan is determined to nurse her back to health and find out why she never found him strange, hoping that she can reveal to them what they are and why they are so different. But he needs to find a way to break through her depression and make her want to live so he can get the answers he needs to save his city and his family.