In the third volume of the trilogy, Ragin finally reaches Roger in the neighboring enclave. His cry for help prompted her to undertake a long journey, and it is high time she arrived.
Like her, he, too, has awakened from cryosleep near newly rebuilt human communities. His kind heart—and perhaps also his loneliness—have led him to share his knowledge and technology. Unfortunately, with fatal consequences.
Ragin witnesses an unjust society in which women are subjugated to men with no chance of changing their fate. But her arrival does not go unnoticed, and unintentionally, she sets a chain of events in motion that threatens to become an avalanche.