After withdrawing money from an ATM, ex-military cop Jack Reacher deciphers a code on the receipt that prompts him to travel to California where he meets up with Frances Neagley, another ex-soldier who tells him a former colleague has been murdered, and together they try to uncover who is trying to kill the members of their old unit.

Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan assumes their wounds and diseases into herself but rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted and when she is abducted by a band of rogues whose leader values her gift, she must heal a plague-stricken princewho is the leader of a campaign against her people.

Still trying to elude the Malison Ring, fourteen-year-old Jack and the dragon warrior Draycos travel to the planet Rho Scorvi where they try to prevent the genocide of the gentle Phookas who are part of the K'da race.