The story of Cecily Daye and the sevens continues in The Barren Way as the girls face greater conflicts when their destinies begin to be revealed. The bond that kept them alive will falter under the weight of new alliances. But when the earth beneath them begins to die, allies and enemies face the same extinction and the same question: What is the point of winning if no one is left alive in the end?

Cecily thought her fighting days were over. She'd surrendered to her fate. She'd left her home, her family, her love, and her sister sevens. She'd given everything, but nothing in her life prepared her for what she'd find in the Source. And for those she left behind, a greater darkness emerges, and their success or failure carries the fates of all.