Absolution: A system of law in which young men and women, “Runners,” are paid bounties, or blood money, to become suspects in crimes committed by the wealthy. They way they are proven innocent? Evade, escape, and survive their hunters. At nineteen, Marisol never thought she would be a tracker of humans. In this post-apocalyptic world where justice is determined by a system of Absolution, Marisol steps up to do her duty. She hates everything that Absolution stands for, but there's nothing she can do about it. Nothing, that is, until one of her Runners turns out to be the key to uncovering a vast conspiracy that threatens to topple the dictator of New Chicago and change their lives forever.

OUT OF THE ASHES AND INTO THE FIRE Marisol and Elias barely escape from New Chicago, finding a way to slip under the city’s mighty wall. Taking shelter in the forbidden area around the city, they find themselves hunted by packs of nightmarish creatures that have begun to breed there. Wounded, exhausted, and out of options, they’re saved by a group of scavengers who claim to be from a settlement on the other side of the Great Lakes. But just when things seem to be looking up for Marisol and Elias, a trap is sprung which forces them to confront their fears and work together with the scavengers to find a way to topple New Chicago’s brutal dictator.

The final showdown has come, and this time nobody is holding back. Sit back and strap in for the third installment of the Blood Runners series. Part Mad Max, part mech-warrior Post-Apocalyptic, this series is loosely tied into the Seppukarian Universe.