The Army of Angels has survived what should have destroyed them. A smear campaign and blame game that nearly buried their name. An outing that exposed a NOC list through a hostile exchange with Russian intelligence. Internal fractures, competing agendas, and traitors in their midst, each threat designed to dismantle the organization from the inside out. But what none of them understood then is what Elena Voss understands now: those attacks were not random. They were tests, pressure applied to the seams of a protected network to see if the world would let it break. Elena returns from a court-martial that tried to rewrite her as the villain for saving humanity through unauthorized timeline jumps. Stripped of official command, she follows a distortion in reality, an interference that behaves like intention. It leads her to the Army of Angels. Her warning is simple and terrifying: someone doesn’t just want the Army of Angels ruined… someone wants them erased, removed from history as if they never mattered. A temporal predator faction known as the Chronarch Directive has begun hunting “stabilizers,” networks whose honor and compassion anchor balance in the world. The Army of Angels is one of those anchors. And while their enemies can’t defeat them outright, the Chronarchs believe they can delete them from existence by manipulating time, memory, and perception—turning allies into strangers, victories into failures, and truth into a fog no one can prove. But the Chronarchs make a fatal mistake: they don’t understand favor. The Army of Angels is protected, not because they are perfect, but because long ago they chose honor… and now they have added compassion. Balance will not permit their removal. Every attempt to hunt them triggers consequence. Every betrayal has a cost. Now, with the Covenant forced into visibility, Elena guiding from the margins, and traitors still embedded inside the human systems around them, the Army of Angels faces the greatest betrayal of all: the Hunt—an enemy that doesn’t just want to kill them… but wants them never to have existed. And when time becomes the weapon, the only thing that can answer it is the law of Balance, restraint, vigilance, and consequence, moving through rails, records, and reality itself.