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LIMBUS, INC. is a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS's employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word. In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi pool their warped takes on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the fringes of society.

Geneva Sommers, a young orphan girl on a quest to know who she is, has always wished for a different life. Since the great flood and the untimely death of her parents, she's lived a captive life at the orphanage, barely surviving the dangerous predators that patrol the prison-like walls of the Troian Center. One day, Nova, a brave orphan boy claiming to know the truth, speaks up. He tells her an impossible legend and that she's the key to unlocking it. Not only does he believe she's the daughter of a long-lost goddess, but he thinks she holds the magic necessary to save their island.

After the retaking of Earth and the Sol System by the Ordinance Forces, Commander Shenta Parejas holds Humanity’s future together while opposing forces look to tear mankind apart. The Kryth Mahr Domain has not forgotten about the demeaning loss to their reborn adversary, Humans. Lintorth Sol will stop at nothing to gain all knowledge about this race that brought disgrace upon his beloved empire and his honored family name.

Technological advances at the end of the 25th century seeded the foundation for humankind's Golden Age of Peace. However, eager to rid themselves of an ancient galactic secret, the Kryth Mahr Domain entered the Sol system and massacred billions, unleashing a horrific wave of genocidal fire that nearly extinguished the existence of man. Fewer than a million survived. Interstellar ships carried the deluge of refugees to the primitive Mydian system.