Freedom is a lie. It's been four years since Tori escaped the desert planet of Esandira and her life as a drug-mule and assassin for a dictator named Craik, but she is as enslaved as she ever was. While she is physically free, inside her mind, the past blurs with the present, and she's desperate for a cure from the faces that only she can see, and the voices that only she can hear. On the run from an assassin and a bounty hunter, she crosses paths with Spencer, a seventeen-year-old who isn't sure where he's going. Spencer doesn't want anything to do with her, and while she shares the sentiment, their lives are twisted together by the death of a mutual loved one. With her enemies drawing closer, Tori is getting tired of running. And she sees only one way out. Craik must die. It's a dangerous cat and mouse game, but the closer she gets to Craik the more her dark secrets begin to surface and the more she begins to question the path she has chosen.