Gwendolyn, one of the most powerful God Children, has been living quietly in exile after helping create a truce between the God Children and their enemies the Brothers of the Kilmarnock. An old friend arrives at her door to inform her that the truce has been broken, leaving Gwendolyn to contemplate rejoining her people. Meanwhile, Jerome Overstreet, a young man from Brooklyn, attempts to find his kidnapped niece with the help of an old wheel chair bound man named Francis.