\"Stop it! You\"re all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!\" Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she\"s lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her....

The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons. Tobey insists he is being framed. There were ten seats at Dan\"s dinner party the night he was killed and each guest had their own reasons for wishing him dead. Sephy Hadley was one of the guests that night....