When Anne foils Leonhard's attempt to entrap the renegade strikers, she at long last gains the power to challenge the scabs' oppression at the hands of the union, mill, and militia. But as their fragile truce slowly crumbles, Leonhard resorts to once unthinkable acts of betrayal against even the most loyal of his long-time allies. These ripple throughout the mill and city, until they drive the now outcast Slaide to an act of lonesome desperation that may finally bring an end to the crisis, although at a cost far greater than any of them imagined

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