The lines have been drawn. Maggie Lake, newly appointed Minister of Health, is on a crusade to undo the compromises of her father's leadership. Eradicating the Camellias is at the top of her agenda. If she eliminates Willow and Ven, the only witnesses to the coup she just executed, all the better. Willow Carlyle and her friends among the Camellias have an agenda of their own: survival. Even if survival means meeting the Republic in an all out war...