The debt always comes due. Danny Pyle is going to settle it — or become it.He jammed the machine. He laid the siege. He turned forty years of foreclosed accounts into a war the Concord can't win in the daylight. But the company has stopped trying to close the accounts it can't collect — now it's going to erase them, and everyone Danny saved is scheduled for disposal.So the lowest Porter on the boards is going back down. Past the records. P...

He paid his sister's debt. The Concord kept the receipt.Danny Pyle walked out of the Sump alive — but the lowest-licensed Porter on the boards came up owing a Lien that grows faster than he can pay it, and the company that owns it doesn't want money. It wants him.When Danny's sister reads the truth out of the Concord's own records — that forty-one families were never collected, they were manufactured, and that the people the company forecl...

Danny Pyle is not a hero.He is a Porter.In the Rifts, fighters get the glory, Menders get the gratitude, and Porters carry the bodies, the salvage, the debt, and everything the System refuses to value.Danny has no combat license. No weapon. No reputation worth speaking of.Just a strong back, sharp eyes, and a familiar named Cargo who talks too much, knows too much, and goes strangely quiet whenever the name Halberd is mentioned.Every descent is suppo...