America is peaceful and back at the top of the world seventy years after the Second Revolutionary War tore through the country and gave birth to Central--the new government. For Lily Sandover the Second Revolution is just another war to learn about in school, until her political father gets promoted into Central and she is taught that everything is not as it appears. The peace the people of America know comes at a high price, and the appointed Leader of America is just another puppet for a far more powerful man in the shadows.