SHEBANG is lit by ancient bonfires and buzzing like a methane moped. In a community on the ragged edge of nowhere, sharp and solitary Ailey Esper works on her history of a doomed and dangerous hero—but surprising love and very dark power are waiting for her there, along with a bad news herbalist, a pure-hearted goatkeeper, and a historian with his own sharp past. A near-future myth about love, revenge, and the animal that lives inside us all.