Boundary Patrol agent Lily Turnbow is fighting a terrorist for her existence when everything around her dissolves right into a maelstrom of light and thunder. Awakening one hundred years afterwards, she finds a ruined globe in which bands of mutants are at war with normal human beings, and discovers she is as changed as her environment. Resurrected right into a society only now starting to recover from the Event that almost wiped out humanity, she’s become a Cross-up, obtaining magical forces she never had before..READING MORE on the subject of Hereafter Driven with a bewildering set of situations, she uses these forces for the nice of the O\’Quinn clan, a sword and equine society who have, against their better wisdom, taken her in. But with few exceptions these people are not as appreciative of her help as one might expect. Actually after killing one of her \”own kind,\” the serial killer Philip Barnes-a Cross-up known in this time around as Screenmaster-the O\’Quinns view her with fear and suspicion. With the exception of O\’Quinn cousin Nate Quick who’s her most vocal advocate, the clan can\’t wait around to get rid of her. Sent before the clan elders, her alternatives are banishment into a unhappy, friendless globe where no one trusts anybody-or loss of life. But Lily isn\’t ready to die–again.