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Kira Liebert’s brief taste of freedom beyond Vita Nova’s wall shatters when Patrol soldiers seize young Teddy, dragging him back to face certain death. With no choice but to follow, she returns to the city that branded her a traitor—only to be captured and cast into the Confines, the brutal prison where the condemned await execution. She emerges from the darkness bearing two impossible burdens: a blue rose on her wrist and a new identity as Victor Devlin's secret daughter. Deep in the wilderness of the Unregulated Zone, Ghost refuses to surrender another soul to Vita Nova’s cruel ritual.

After the fall of the Sanctuary—and the loss of the boy she loved—Gemma Alcott is a shadow of who she once was. Now living in Winter’s Dam, she takes up Letty Webb’s mantle, offering weary subversives a safe place to land in the quiet corners of a bookstore. It gives her purpose, something to hold on to. But no matter how many people she helps, she can’t outrun the grief—or the haunting question that won’t let her go: What if Taylor Nolan is still alive?

Six months after fleeing the Task Force, Gemma Alcott and a handful of fellow believers have found refuge deep in the Pennsylvania wilderness. Tucked away in a hidden encampment known as the Sanctuary, supplied by an aging bookstore owner and her quiet network of allies, it feels—for the first time—like peace. Each night, Gemma falls asleep in Taylor’s arms, surrounded by trees, silence, and the fragile hope that maybe, just maybe, they’re safe.

In an abandoned coal mine, a group of fugitives huddle 400 feet beneath the surface of the Earth. To the world, and to the Federal Task Force that has been commissioned to hunt them down, they are known as subversives. Dangerous religious zealots who must be captured and imprisoned before their extremism can infect anyone else. Since the night of her parent’s arrest, Gemma Alcott has been in hiding as a subversive. She’s found a home - and someone to love - but she's never forgotten the love she left behind.

Twelve years ago, a global pandemic known as the Job virus decimated the world’s population. One city withstood the virus by going into lockdown during the early days of the pandemic, erecting a massive barricade wall to insulate themselves from the sick and the dying.

Kira always knew that her future in Vita Nova was predetermined: a mandatory death at age sixty, just like every other citizen. But when she falls in love with Will Foster, one of the city's revered Volunteers, and risks everything to escape the city's iron grip, she begins to believe that a different life might be within reach. With Will and young Teddy by her side, Kira ventures into the Unregulated Zone, desperate to find other survivors and a place free from Vita Nova’s oppressive rule—a place where freedom still exists.