In her short time of awakening, Avarie is reluctantly stolen away to the Russian FSB by the immortal twins Kirill and Mikhail to continue her training in a deal Courtney made with the Russians' before she was ever created. Taking along her elemental guardian, Sasha, they must learn to cope together in a foreign land. Avarie learns more of her past life as the people she trains with relate stories from the darkest days of the fall of the United States. The past and present collide as her and Sasha learn about love, forgiveness, and the magic inside us all. While the Powers that Be close in on...

Fleeing a genetic research facility, Avarie must find her way around a desolated world. Along the way she meets a man who holds the key to her future and another to her past. Given a choice to fight or flee, Avarie must choose between herself and humanity. Before she can choose, she must find the answers to what happened to the world as we know it. Armed with unnatural gifts, she opens doorways to the past and to the future. Upon her exploration into different worlds, Avarie learns what it is to be human, but in the end, she needs to learn how to awaken.