**Rewrite** Programmed beings with enhanced abilities walk among humans with strange tattoos and stranger weapons, influencing the human race from the shadows. Overlooked and for most of her life, Simone Chase is perfectly comfortable ignoring the stranger that mysteriously appears in her physics class, until slowly it dawns on her who he is searching for.

Five years ago, the Citadel burned the accused city of Verum to the ground for an unspeakable crime. The Citadel's most elite force has continued the war against Verum's allies since, but when a Riders Corps commander accepts a Verumese survivor as a recruit, the Citadel balks. It is a strategic move for intel, but knowledge comes at a price, and the Verum survivor's is steep.