A year has passed.

Sam Chung has everything he wanted, and can’t stand any of it. He can make anyone do anything. He runs the largest religious organization in America. He married a woman who would never have looked at him, and then told her to love him. She does. It’s the worst thing he has ever done, and he cannot undo it.

Sophie Lai is still in the prison apartment Holtz put her in, wearing a living collar that tightens when she gets angry. Holtz calls it a trainer. Her employee file was deleted the day after Diablo. But powerful people are looking for her, and they don’t work for GeneTech.

Amadé is raising a nine-year-old who can read her mind, in a house where everyone is waiting for Whitfield to come home.

And in Colorado, a cell in a federal supermax penitentiary is empty.

Book Two opens here.