Marathon is gone, destroyed in a vicious civil war. Chloe Corday and her parents, Anna and Sean, have found sanctuary in a coastal town where the sun still breaks the clouds and the ruins of Chloe’s childhood are distant. But time cannot outrun memory. The arrival of one peculiar child is all it takes for Chloe to unravel in a squall of revelations that threaten to reignite the nightmare of her past.