After a narrow escape from the city of Impervious, Fran's heart aches for the ones she left behind. Will her brother ever connect the dots? And, what about Pete? Could he, along with the remaining Rebels, have survived the Council's violent oppression? As Fran ponders the fate of her friends, an even more disturbing revelation drops into her world-the knowledge that she, along with anyone who had lived underground remains implanted with the sinister presence of the Council. A fate rendering her powerless to save. Yet one with pure blood, untouched by the Council's defiling, lives among them....