The United States uses a terrible new weapon to bring Japan to its knees. Adelaide is devastated, but then, to her surprise, she is given her freedom, and a mission to travel to her shattered homeland, and there, do what she can to aid in its recovery.  

But she has not forgotten her vow to see the men who murdered her students pay for their crimes with their lives.    All the while, a shadowy group that even the Council must obey has been watching her, and her lover.  

What they want is as mysterious as they are...