Fifteen-year-old Trey has just moved to England from America. Struggling to fit in with his new life, everything changes when he is extracted to Anasius, an alternate world on the brink of war. In this new world, Trey and his friends find themselves pulled into a web of torture, betrayal and death. Facing the terrors and traumas of a one-sided war, there appears to be little hope. When tragedy strikes back home too, the group are forced to put their horror and haunting emptiness aside, and work together to summon the courage to fight – can life be drawn from the crucible of death?

When high-ranking Anasiun officials start mysteriously falling ill, Xci1, the King, knows that danger looms over his country once more. 

From their English homes, the seven friends are dropped again into Anasius, but it’s the worst possible moment for Joe and Kia. A perilous mission into the heart of enemy territory now rises between them and an urgent conversation.

Meanwhile, a thirteen-year-old Turonian girl with short blonde hair picks up her rifle…