Summary
Five and a half years after Tris ranks first in initiation, she has a job in leadership, and a dream life in dauntless. She is surrounded by close friends, and she has been married for a little under a year to fellow dauntless prodigy Four. She is one of the most well liked people, and is considered an all around badass, all of the younger girls in dauntless aspire to be her. Life is perfect right? That is what everyone thought, but then how is it that she ended up dead in a dark alley in factionless in the early hours in the morning. Who killed the female dauntless prodigy? What secrets was she hiding? Is she even really dead?
Four used to be obsessed with going through his fear landscape, but he never considered what would happen if one of his worst fears came true. Now he is obsessed with finding out who killed his wife, and why they did it. He definitely never considered that the love of his life would have lied to him, but dauntless is changing, and people like Tris don't end up dead for no reason. The worst part is that he just doesn't feel like she is dead.
Vivianne Callow just wants out. At 16 years old, and about to choose the path that she will follow for the rest of her life, all she is certain about is that the life of academia and fake personalities is just not for her. She, and fellow Erudite rebel Jackson have decided to transfer, but they just cant decide where. To add to her troubles, Vivianne encounters a major and dangerous surprise in the days leading up to the choosing ceremony, that leaves her in a tail spin about where she should go. Also, she receives a proposition from an important Erudite on the day of the ceremony that leaves her wondering, who killed Tris Prior?