After loss and devastation, Taylor Renee Wolford has disappeared from the world - hoping to escape the Script and the negative influence she has on others through it. However prophecy is a fickle thing and events churn around Taylor as her brothers discover the horrible truth of the Arbiter's experiments, forcing them to entreat the help of the avians. But affecting change can be difficult when those very allies have no love for mammals and the Script thwarts them at every turn.

All the while, dark agents from Taylor's past return and take her beyond the borders of her homeland to the reptile empire of Talkar, filled with the political machinations of the powerful rich and elite. With the dubious guiding hand of Ari, the Arbiter's daughter, Taylor learns of her unique role in prophecy - a mysterious force that if handled wrongly could plunge the world into war and doom everyone she holds dear.