Maker

When Zander Collins, a level three legal tech, meets Bethany Wilks, a no-tech coffin maker of no account, he decides to be civil, considering they are at a funeral. It soon becomes apparent that Bethany is far more complex than her humble station in life indicates. She is an intelligent, mysterious, worldly-wise yet quiet woman capable of crafting the final resting place of a human without the slightest bit of qualm. She is also one of the fabled tech killers the State fears, and yet produces a different type of technology the State would kill to acquire. It is enough to make the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. The more Zander interacts with her, the more he is exposed to an exciting, disturbing, and much more intense way of living than he ever knew existed while working behind a desk. By the time he realizes the city they live in is under an assault by the very governing forces that should protect it, Zander also learns the lowly Bethany is the one person who stands between the city and total chaos. And when the assault becomes a physical war, one in which no human will likely survive, who better to put his faith in than a coffin maker? After all, they don’t fear death, they deal with it - oftentimes the hard way.