Surviving Jenna's attempt to bury them alive, Kalen and Mayla take refuge in the Barrera Wilds. While hiding they unlock some mystery surrounding the death of Kalen's wife, Jancee, and Russell, his father.
Flying north, Mayla takes Kalen to meet her father, Quintin Santiago, once a close friend of Russell MacKenna. From Quintin, he learns of the betrayal dividing the MacKennas and the Santiagos.

Clues lead them further north, but they a\'re intercepted and drugged. Kalen wakes up alone, bound in the cargo compartment of a flyer. Can he survive and uncover what his father suspected is really happening to their world? And what of Mayla? Has she paid the ultimate price to find the answers they need?