After years of life balanced on the edge of a blade, Neri has her freedom, but the cost is almost too much to bear. The only way to retain her sanity is to forgiveCas, Evan, even herself. Every effort she makes, though, seems to result in more deaths. Redemption is just another mirage.
Meanwhile Grayson has put the band of dissidents on the Temple's Endangered Humans list. Enforcers and Inquisitors hunt for them in every corner of the nation, and their flight takes Neri further and further away from seeking revenge. Then, while pursuing information on what happened to Jarvis, the dissidents discover secrets that could open up a new front in their war. They urgently need to build an army, but to do that, they have to risk releasing the plague, and possibly start another apocalypse. . .