"As the dust settles after a devastating second American civil war, the work of rebuilding begins. But can a population who's spent years divided and hell-bent on victory at any cost ever be truly reunited? The scars of war are many: lives have been destroyed; cities have been completely eradicated; and prisoners of war who have been experimented on, in the name of science and in the search for a perfect soldier, are now emerging with dark and dangerous abilities"--