Two decades before the events described in Partials, the world was plunged into a battle for survival: a global war for the last remaining oil reserves on the planet. It was for the Isolation War that the American government signed a contract with ParaGen to manufacture Partials - the last hope for restoring energy independence from China. It was on these battlefields that the seeds of humanity's ultimate destruction were sown. Isolation takes us back to a time when human ambition outweighed foresight. Heron, a newly trained Partial soldier, is dropped deep behind enemy lines. She discovers there much more far-reaching consequences not only for the Isolation War, but also for the Partials and people. Consequences that will change the future after this war ends.