Jack was the revolution's contingency plan. With the assault on the Macron City Military Base shattered, she was to assassinate Governor Andromeda Macron and revert Capernica back to Capernican control. But she failed, the revolution lies in ashes, and the one person she loves more than anyone in the world has betrayed her.
Alone in Brunay, Jack becomes an anonymous cog in the vast Bruelim slave economy, where callous wardens aren't the only threat to her safety. The labor compound she's been assigned to contains an inmate hierarchy dominated by descendants of the Provocation's original victims, and they don't welcome newcomers. But Jack also finds friendship among the displaced laborers, and like her grandmother, Ruby, she burns with the desire to see them all home.
More importantly, Jack discovers the key to freeing Capernica from Bruel aggression forever. But even if she managed an escape, how could she leave Will in Brunay, trapped in the body of a Berkam?