Altered by the things she's seen and done, the same old Blastborn isn't the same anymore. Arabeth is home again, but never has she felt this alone. Sam and Melanie are in Vensay, and no one in Blastborn knows the truth about how their unique little city was started or the changes headed their way.
In her frustration, she let slip that Blastborn citizens were unwitting captives, by order of their own government when the wrong reporter was listening. Soon after that, the protests started.
She's got more than bad press to worry about. An elderly gentleman asks her to use her abilities with lyars to free people held inhumanly in buried prison and she agrees on the condition they be moved to the prison in Blastborn. When the prison turns out to be a stasis chamber and the criminals escape in an attempt to gather support and restart the war, you would think recapturing them is the hard part.
Now her only hope is a strange, thin man in a mechanized suit of over-sized armour and electrical technology that makes her skin crawl.