Book overview
Mere hours after the phone call that destroyed what was left of her life, Alyx McLean is jumping from train to plane and back again to meet the very man who killed her hope for the future. Jackson thinks he is meeting his new soldier in Santa Cruz unaware that his play backfired, and Alyx has enacted what Peter had termed the Nuclear Option.
As Alyx travels through Europe towards her transatlantic flight back to the states, she tries to define a plan for going undercover and taking down the Circle of Fifths once and for all. However, as her grief threatens to drown her and her nightmares steal what little sleep she is offered, one bad decision leads to anther until she starts to question whether or not she is ready to assume the persona necessary for her survival without losing track of who she is and what she stands for.
