In a drought-ravaged post-apocalyptic future, the voices in Shakti's head tell her how to survive. But when hegemony control officer Lucas Seraph murders her brother as he shuts off the water supply to another doomed city, Shakti is thrown into a desperate flight to understand and control the frightening powers growing within her. Pursued by death cultists, mutilated rebels, and the demons in her own mind, Shakti's only way back, her last chance to save billions of lives from the burning of the world, lies bound in the past of the very man who pursues her across the wastes...