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 his attempts to right the wrongs around him clash with Joan's efforts to keep her life on an even keel as she struggles with PTSD. When traitors within their group lead them all into a trap, everything falls apart and Joan and Duncan are left fighting for their very lives-and each other.