Regan Genovese led a quiet, compliant existence in The Citadel, spending most of her life being told where to work, how to live and what people were acceptable to socialize with. Now, after years of meticulous planning, the time has finally come for her to misbehave.As a warden of The Citadel, Mordecai Hoxley is the all-seeing mind behind the great Panopticon system of sector 08. It is his duty to ensure order, and his responsibility to see that The Citadel’s way of life is upheld.Whether by design or by chance, Regan and Mordecai's fates and passions intertwine. To him, she is a dissident, a terrorist capable of dismantling everything he holds sacred. To her, he is a power-hungry madman, a tyrant who represents everything wrong with The Citadel.Through their mutual lust, obsession, and affection, Regan and Mordecai vie for control over the future of The Citadel… and one another.