Worse is a bottomless pit. A fresh new hell in the walled-in Fort Jackson US Army Base. The Congressional Order to rescue Zoners is worse than the group imagined. Kept in an overcrowded hangar bay of detainees, one false move can be fatal. The group faces separation. Uneasy alliances made with an enemy tribe. Zoner is their new identity and all that matters, but old harms and hates are hard to forget.