Rachel Brackett is living on the edge, and the view is exhausting. The lines have been drawn. Rachel searches for ways of setting her adopted family free of the evil caused by Telov's experiments. Winning requires nothing less than full cooperation from all factions, leaving Rachel and Leonardo to unite forces bonded by hate. In the search, Rachel uncovers truths more crippling than any she has known, and threatens all that she has come to love. The war has arrived, and anything less than success promises to forever poison the beauty of the mountains with the stench of death.