Tasker.

Veteran.

Engineer.

Searcher.

Each of them is on the long journey through dangerous backroads down to the “Drowned City” of mid-22nd century New Orleans. They have but one thing in common: each of them is looking for Query.

None of them is even sure who - or what - is behind the mysterious criminal syndicate. But each knows that Query has what they're looking for. And it may even be willing to help them - for a price.

A debt migrant, desperate for a better life. 

A soldier, reeling from the grief of losing his husband. 

An engineer on a mission to avert a war in her homeland. 

A refugee worker in search of his lover’s abductors.

As their clando van twists its way through the Tennessee Republic, the Sovereign State of Alabama, the Republic of Mississippi and into the increasingly lawless Louisiana Territory, the four of them begin to realize that their meeting isn’t a coincidence. They’ve each been summoned. Together.