When a mysterious figure in a VR mini-golf game recruits 18-year-old Lamar to help a troubled classmate, he and his best friend Mark are pulled from their ordinary lives into a real-world conspiracy. They must cross the fractured states of America to infiltrate a dangerous techno-cult, the Ishkobatu, and rescue Zoe, a girl being groomed for a horrific purpose as they stand against the powerful globalist regime of Rex Mundi. A stand-alone volume from the We Stand universe, set during the period of Below We Stand.