Shea has finally made it to Grenon but not without paying a price. She has left the only home she's ever known and maybe worse, her best friend Max, behind. However, she still has Benut to help her; until he is whisked away to Court hearings and to make amends with his own dark past that he left behind long before he met the Killinger's. This leaves Shea behind to try and find out whether Kip is alive, find her grandparents whom she hasn't seen for four years, and deal with the General's blood thirsty plans for her. In this gritty, dark and even gorier second installment of The Heroes, Shea Killinger will find out what it means to truly lose everything and finally find that maybe she is the runner that she never intended to be.