2408. Humanity travels through space through interstellar portals, and only rebels and criminals remain on the torn Earth. Eighteen-year-old Blaze is one of the last seven hundred people trying to survive in an increasingly dangerous New York. Her mother died six years ago. The brother turned out to be a traitor. Blaze considers his father Donnel, the head of a fragile alliance between the remnants of the Earth Resistance and the old criminal gangs. What Donnel himself believes in is unknown, because after the betrayal of her brother he barely communicates with Blaze. She is still intact only because she was considered too insignificant, but now, with the alliance teetering on the brink of starvation, an old enemy is trying to seize power. The crash of a plane carrying three privileged interstellar travelers only adds fuel to an already tense atmosphere, and Blaze is forced to emerge from the shadows. Will the traitor's sister be able to convince Donnell, the warring factions and the offworlders to unite and escape New York's death trap? Blaze believes that failure will mean the death of everyone she knows, but then she discovers the travelers' secret. It turns out that the stakes are much higher than the lives of seven hundred people.