It's an uneasy alliance as Edward, Emma and Gradenko head to Vermont to try to find out who's been manipulating them. Cal goes along to make sure nothing happens to the Twins, and Shrew goes along to make sure nothing happens to Cal. But Charles Pennington has laid his trap well. And as Selina makes her own way out to Vermont to find Shrew, she has no idea what's happening to her friends, and no idea about the danger that she, too, is in. The Project is unleashed. The battle has begun. And Cal finally learns the secret that haunts his mother's past.