Tara is coming into her power...but she has to keep fighting tooth and nail.She doesn't want to be a hero. She doesn't want to be the object of hope and salvation for her broken post-apocalyptic society. All she wants to do is rescue her kin.Ben is being held prisoner by the mad despot who calls himself "Prezedant." Now she must train herself to use her strange new powers. Then she must plan: how can she enter the Prezedant's domain undetected and break into the fortress where Ben is being held?It will begin and end at the Prezedant's Masquerade Ball, in a battle against the tyrant and a daring escape that will literally shake the world.Join Tara on her journey... beginning with Awaken, Book One of the New Bloods Trilogy.