Blanca has everything she ever wanted, a hot boyfriend and the loving support of her foster father. She's finally escaped the abusive control of her birth father and her tortured childhood at Tabula Rasa School.But the scars of Blanca's Vestal upbringing run deep, especially when the FBI start asking questions.Blanca feels abandoned by her boyfriend, who is hunting for Lilith, Blanca's only blood relative. The Defectos, a support group of Vestal-Rejects, offer Blanca comfort which she readily accepts.While the Vestal order crumbles, Chinese rivals, the Guardians, rise to power and wrest control of important Tabula Rasa contacts. As Blanca's life is thrown into chaos once more, she struggles to recognize friend from foe, and one miscalculation can have devastating consequences.