Following a deadly firestorm, the world erupts in violence as a population, long weary of tyranny, rises up against an oppressive police state. As the world collapses into civil war, a rouge Lightwarrior emerges from the shadows, leaving a trail of bodies in her wake and stirring the rebelling public to a deadly frenzy.
After being outed as a pyrokinetic and blamed for the death of a prominent Resistance leader, Charlie finds herself once again the target of deadly violence. Together with her adoptive parents David and Catherine, Charlie is forced to go on the run once more or face extermination at the hands of a public driven to hatred and rabid violence by fear, misunderstanding and too many years of oppression.