Sometimes even superheroes can't save the world.
Two years ago, seven young men and women faced down the world's oldest monster, saving their city and the planet. But Mortis Ambulare, the impossible creature that calls itself Mort, still haunts the battlefields of the new cold war, growing stronger with every life he takes. One day he will return to Vivimor to tear down the Kopelsburg Defensive Field that spares the world the fate of California—transformation into a desolate grey wasteland inhabited only by bloodthirsty abominations.
But the outside danger has been forgotten as tensions escalate within the city. Vivimor boils on the point of all-out war, torn between the growing corruption of the once-righteous revolutionaries and the ancient abuses of the city's vested authorities. The heroes who once bested Mort now struggle to keep the peace, searching for the larger truths behind their city, their powers, and the Wastes themselves. As the world they know collapses around them, they must find their own answers and their own paths.
The old rules are crumbling, and the only hope for Earth lies in the hands of the renegades.
