Their mission isn't over.

Malia and David think they've escaped the tyrannical Diversity Justice Republic for good. She's devouring books once forbidden to her. David says he will never kill again. He is trying to learn the ways of the executive suite, wearing a suit rather than the uniform of the brutal Antifan Defense Forces he served for many years. The couple is raising their children in suburbia, in the still-free United States.

But they have underestimated the ADF's zeal to exact revenge for David's defection. As they are pulled back into the DJR, Malia resists the efforts of ADF Commander Khalid Ma to win her over to Diversity. David is organizing the oppressed Deplorables against the government, but struggles with his attraction to their passionate leader Lucy. He vows they will rescue Malia and prevent her forced wedding to Commander Ma, an operation that will give the Deplorables their first chance in decades to strike back at the heart of the Diverse Power. But he isn't even sure that Malia—now a celebrity in the DJR—wants to be rescued at all. (454 pages equivalent).