In the near future America is ruled by a small group of religious zealots called the Fellowship. It's been years since the American experiment was abandoned and replaced with the authoritarian rule of the Under Shepherd, God's chosen hand on Earth, and his draconian police, the Deacons.

Kael Lawson is part of a small rebellion, a group of every day people whose hearts are set on restoring the freedom their parent's told them about. But when a knock comes on Kael's door early one morning he knows that nothing is going to go as planned.