The Demi-Monde is a virtual cyber-world, originally created to train soldiers in urban warfare. But as the layersof deceit are peeled back, it is revealed to be much, much more. Norma Williams has discovered the terrible secret that lies behind the creation of the Demi-Monde. If she is to save the Real World, she must enlist the help of the beautiful but wayward concubine Fresh Bloom Dong E to escape the Forbidding City and destroy the terrible weapon threatening the survival of all those living in the virtual hell that is the Demi-Monde... and the Real World. Even as Norma fights to save the Real World, the Demi-Monde itself is sliding deeper into chaos. Lilith and Reinhard Heydrich are vying for ultimate power, and the only way their evil can be defeated is if the dissolute fraudster Vanka Maykov can discover who he really is - and find the strength to destroy the woman he loves.