1947-

Having narrowly escaped the Erasers in New York City, the flock heads to Washington, D.C., to try to find out more about themselves. After they are approached and offered sanctuary by the FBI, they try going to school and living normal lives, but the Erasers catch up with them and send them on the run again.

Book reads from left to right. Max and her winged friends must face the ultimate enemy and stop a plot to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race that will terminate the rest of humankind.