The 64 members of Fire Lake, Idaho's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program-- and each other. They alone have emerged into the dawn of a new era on Earth, into a Fire Lake valley that's full of otherworldly dangers and challenges. Staying alive in this broken world should force Min, Noah, Tack, and the others to form new alliances-- but old feuds die hard, and the brutality of the earlier Program phases cannot be forgotten.