Imara and her friends, now that she has learned she can see GOOD emotions along with the negative ones and actually has friends, are involved in rescuing children from trafficking in Cairo. She has moved in with her sister, Naki, in Kenya, but thanks to technology advances, air travel is ridiculously easy and quick. (Alaska to Cairo in an hour!). Her work is intense and busy, often lasting late into the night, so she has to decide if her priorities are more with the lifesaving work she is doing, her new and intense relationship, or trying to revive a friendship with her sister, something they both truly want. The characters grow a lot in this book compared to the first. They are all fighting internal battles as well as a major war with a mob and a cult trying to take over the city. One of the main characters, Abe, finally accepts something major about himself that seems like it will change the whole course of his life. I found this book to be more fast paced than the first book.
