Team SAPR have returned from their vacation in Mistral and are ready to face a new semester at Beacon Academy, joined not only by their classmates, and their Atlesian friends of Team RSPT, but also by visiting students from Atlas, Haven and Shade Academies gathered for the Vytal Festival, including Sunset's new friend, Cinder Fall.

Distant clouds gather over Vale, the White Fang continue their campaign of crime, and the presence of an Atlesian battlefleet in the skies above the city lends an uncertain air to proceedings, but Sunset is content to ignore the darkness falling outside the school and leave all such things to the proper authorities.

Or at least, she would if she could. Blake, Sunset's sort-of friend, remains grimly determined to stop the White Fang's reign of terror, and Sunset is dragged with her along a road that will overturn everything they thought they knew about the world, and lead SAPR, RSPT and Blake to the very heart of a dead city, and to the choice that will define who Sunset is for the rest of her life.