In the Anti-Fallen Party, we trust. To the death and back. Till freedom come tomorrow. Angels be damned. Till freedom come today. Angels be ruined. Welcome to the Resistance. Nineteen-year-old Max was born cursed by the fallen angels who won the war. Given she's one stage away from losing herself to their insatiable bloodlust, her fellow resistance members are eagerly waiting for the day they'll have to put a bullet in her head. That's exactly why on the eve of her nineteenth birthday, Max attempts to do the only other thing aside from succumbing to her curse that would render her obsolete—defect. However, when a chance encounter with one of the holy angels, believed to no longer walk the earth, renders her in the last stage of her curse albeit stable, Max is granted a rare opportunity by the very resistance that would rather her dead—infiltrate enemy territory and figure out how the Fallen are uncovering the locations of the resistance's units. If she can do that, she'd guarantee the safety of the one person in the organization that truly matters—Alex, a childhood friend turned crush turned lover. There's just one problem. The territory is a place where many who go don't always make it back. And while Max has always been crafty when it comes to her survival, the Fallen have a new king. And he's dead-set on completely eradicating the resistance, full of secrets that just might shatter Max's understanding of who her real friends are and why she's really been labeled an outcast.