Eurydice's chance to live again slips through her fingers when Orpheus turns around. Hades and Persephone waste no time in indoctrinating her as the rising star of the EBN, dancing for the Grey Zone and the Underworld on-air. But as Eurydice adjusts to the Underworld, she becomes determined to do something about the situation.

As the crowd of shades cheers his impending demise, Orpheus's mind turns sideways to paths that might have been. Four things that never happened to Orpheus, but could have, and one thing that did.

In the months since Eurydice's death and Orpheus's failed rescue attempt, young Razoreus is caught in the aftermath. Getting Orpheus back on his feet is hard enough, but an encounter with Persephone could end Razoreus's life or shred his mind to pieces-or, perhaps, allow Orpheus an encore performance on the EBN.

The EBN has unparalleled control over the minds of the masses with their seductive cathode rays, and Hades and Persephone are sitting pretty. But ' Orpheus' is the rallying cry among the Grey Zone populace, and Hades has learned the hard way that some things, like love, just refuse to die.