Following a worldwide economic collapse, a tyrannical administration has taken control of the United States government and nullified the Constitution. Joan Bowman, a highly skilled veteran and patriot, joins an underground resistance group to restore America's beloved freedoms. Too late, she realizes that the group she so idealistically joined is just as corrupt as the administration in Washington. However, since she knows too much to ever leave the group alive, she turns State's evidence. But when the task force demands she go back to the group to obtain one last piece of crucial...

Joan Bowman and Duncan are fugitives, but trouble doesn't seem to have any problem finding them... Joan, Duncan, and Kearney race across the country, barely avoiding capture by the Constitution Defense Legion Task Force. They settle down in the Phoenix area to begin new lives with new identities, unaware that a group of discontented Mexican-Americans called La Espada, The Sword, led by an ex-con, Tito Orrozco, has a bone to pick with them because Joan killed Tito's brother while defending a crippled woman during an attack by La Espada. Duncan's response to the attack is to form a militia, but...