The Juxtapose City story is set in the near future. Many advances have been made - vehicles are electronically-charged 'crafts', most mechanical devices are either computer-driven or enhanced - but the city still experiences the same gritty problems as cities of the present: crime, drug abuse, and the corruption of innocents. Most crime, drug abuse and corruption is now based in the sale and usage of Bliss, a special addictive drug that is used to numb the senses which is of great use among psypaths; people born with unique and sometimes very powerful and yet uncontrollable powers of telepathy, empathy, and mind control, among others. To help combat the growing violence within the streets of Juxtapose City, private citizens have funded a special department within the JC Police Department that does not answer to any law and yet exists to impose it. Of these Special Teams, the Juxtapose City Units are the most deadly and powerful. JC1, headed by Lt. Andrew Sundhill, was the original team created. Its success and the need for more assistance in dealing with the City's growing crime, necessitated the creation of JC2. Command of the newly created JC2 was given to Lt. Black, a young protege of Capt. Dickerson, head of the Special Teams division. The youngest ST leader in JCPD's history, Black's past is shrouded in mystery, his records sealed by official order. All that is known of Black is that he is a highly skilled, intense agent with a noted passion for eliminating drug crimes, specifically, those involving the psypath drug, Bliss. When two of Black's teammates are killed during a mission, Black is forced to take onto his team an empath, Calyx Starr. Calyx is notorious among the psypath community both for his brashness and his lack of fear concerning JCPD. Having been coerced by the police into working for them, Calyx is now an outcast among his former friends, considered a snitch and subject to assault should he be caught on the streets unaware. Like all psypaths, Calyx relies heavily on the drug, Bliss, to help him keep his sanity. He is unable to block out the psychic feedback he constantly receives from other people and must therefore rely on the brain-wave altering properties of Bliss to muffle the feedback. In order to get the drug he so desperately needs, Calyx has at times resorted to thievery and prostitution. Black and Calyx are as opposite as two men can be and cannot handle the deep and surprising attraction that begins to develop between them...