A few weeks after the wedding happens, the Autobots are forced to go into hiding for the world has turned their back on them for "causing" the war and destruction of Chicago, Illinois. A world of pain and suffering is now in play, friends are being lost, lives are being changed, and in the middle of all of it, Lilliana has the most difficult decision to make: either stay human and live peacefully alive with her children, or die with the ones she calls family.