Six years ago, one student escaped Aldergate. Everyone says she got away. Everyone is lying.
Cass Mercer has a name, a trail, and a brother she is trying to haul back out of the dark one memory at a time. When the crew slips the walls and follows the old escape route down off the mountain, into the safehouses that hide the ones the school could not keep, they think they are chasing freedom.
They are being led. Someone at the low table has been trading them the whole way down, and the price of the last escape was never freedom. It was proof that there is no such thing.
A friend will not come home from this road. A door will open that should have stayed shut. And the truth about the girl who ran will change what Cass is willing to become.
No resurrection fake-outs. The deaths stand.
