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Change has come Home. In more ways than one. Leader Johnathon Heron erred in ignoring a critical fault just outside the microcosm of Home, and now everyone in the domed-over city suffers for his laxity. The Edge has become a seething cauldron of doubt, fear and mistrust. Ordinary men and women are rising up against what they perceive to be an intentionally caused disaster, forcing Commander Beauchamp and Leader Heron to revisit, revise and implement far more serious measures to keep Home safe from itself. Aloysius Honeymaker, doting father, stern Keeper of Bees, grows quietly enraged as his daughter, Wanda, suffers under the yoke of her imprisonment. The once-smartest man in Home resolves to bring his daughter peace, to give unto her satisfaction. No matter where that decision takes him, no matter the cost. Alexander Stinson has been given his greatest dream. He has become the youngest Peacer in History. Built on a platform of trickery and lies, young Alex works hard to distance himself from that fateful day in Advanced History, but at what cost to family and friends? Will the injuries he sustained saving ungrateful Shery drive a wedge between him and his friend, Rickard Heron, or will he master the darkness spreading quickly through him?Peter Stinson, still 'ward' to The Church, still Scribe to Father Merrick, struggles to understand his role in the world; an unabashed atheist and seemingly incapable of holding his tongue, Peter is finding it difficult to understand precisely what it is that Father Merrick sees in him as well as finding a place within those holy halls amongst the other brothers. Will he discover the proper path to Salvation, or will the pressures of his new lot in life send him in a different direction altogether?Father Merrick never approved of Leader Heron's decision to 'save' Mystery Girl. Never held his tongue about what he believed to be the most likely outcome. As he made his point clear, so to did he decide he'd not allow what's happening be