"Conjured Killer Running Wild on The Net." Life on the streets of 21st-century Seattle can be tough, especially for a young ork like Pita. And it gets a lot tougher when she wittnesses a corporate mage murdered by the violent spirit he just conjured form another dimension. Now she's in a heap of trouble with the head mage's employer, an organization with smething to hide. Fortunately, KKRU reporter Carla Harris is in a position to help. Carla needs a big sotry to give her career some juice, and Pita's predicament might be the ticket. Because Pita's pursuer, MCT, the mega-huge computer firm, has hired the heavy hand of the Yakuza crime organziation as muscle, things heat up pretty fast. Moreover, the entity that MCT's mage foolishly summoned is very, very old, and unlike any power on earth. it has infiltrated the telecommunications matrix with devilish cunning, and unless Pita can thwart it with her newly acquired magical powers, Seattle's throat will be wide open for the cutting...