The general public is unaware that millions of people with superhuman abilities exist. The Organization for Mutant Extraction and Genetic Analysis has made sure that is the case. Disguised as a pharmaceutical company, OMEGA has policed the mutant population for generations, monitoring the activities of two mutant organizations and hundreds of anarchist factions living in plain sight.
One teenaged civilian girl becomes the flashpoint for a cold war that is coming to a boil. Herod Enterprises, the mutant military complex, manages to alter her DNA, turning her into an Alpha-status mutant. Cyprus Industries, a mutant-run multinational conglomerate, decides to harbor her, but at what cost?
Vicious Circle follows 11 narrating characters whose efforts to mitigate this volatile situation spiral in contention with each other. The catalyst herself must navigate the underground society she has been thrust into while the children of Cyprus Industries directors try to figure out her story. Herod Enterprise's leadership has kicked the hornets' nest and must deal with the repercussions of their decisions before it causes another Purge at the hands of OMEGA.