For the Female of the Species is far more deadly than the male." Rudyard Kipling, said of female lions. After returning from a mission to salvage a time capsule, Quinn and the Space Marines face imprisonment at the hands of a rogue faction of the resistance, and Samantha is taken during her attempts to use her otherworldly abilities to save them. It’s a race against time as Quinn struggles to find a way out of the silo and run a gauntlet through the badlands of Wyoming, where she confronts bands of armed scavengers and resistance fighters who will do anything to stop her from saving her daughter. Will mother and daughter pull through and escape to bring the war to the Syndicate, or will internal conflict signal the end of the fight to save humanity?