Due to decades of pollution and abuse, the world has been completely engulfed in darkness. An enhanced seasonal affective disorder (also known as sunstarve) threatens to turn the world's population into hyper-violent schizophrenics. Through a series of fortuitous events, Ace discovers that he is one of eight extraordinary individuals who have received a set of cognitive transmissions from an unknown source. The transmissions contain a set of coordinates that will lead each of The Shattered Ones (a.k.a. protectors) to a mysterious relic that may end the darkness once and for all. A powerful, corrupt organization and a gang led by a supernatural being, unleashed by the darkness, will stop at nothing to defeat The Shattered Ones. The race to find the relic and return the light to planet Earth begins. Their quest will push each of the chosen protectors to their breaking points, and their pasts will help determine their future. The climactic showdown will reveal the true nature of darkness in Adam Sergent's new science fiction thriller, "The Shattered Ones."