Naiara’s long-thought-dead aunt returns just in time to save her teen niece from a gruesome crime. But Lourdes isn’t back to stay. She reveals a terrifying secret about who Naiara really is and a power they both hold. No one must know.  In a world where clean water is scarce and power elite have seized control of every last inch of land, Naiara’s family has been left to eke out whatever life they can in the desolate Californian countryside. Now she must face an impossible choice: stay in the life she has known and hope she isn’t found out or follow her aunt on a race against time to save all that she loves from a malevolent force who will stop at nothing in its quest to conquer the future.