Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a pefect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate in the antarctic! A powerful figure in the underworld has promised the super-human kids to the highest bidder - and he has the robotic army to ensure the goods are delivered!

Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a perfect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate over their future. But when a traitor is found among them, and a member of the flock goes missing, they soon realize that frostbite isn't the only danger in the Antarctic...!

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.

Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a perfect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate over their future, but frostbite isn't the only danger in the Antarctic! A powerful figure in the underworld has promised the super-human kids to the highest bidder--and he has the robotic army to ensure the goods are delivered!

"Join six extrodinary kids who have powers like no ther - they can fly, and they're being chased - no, hunted - across America and around the world." -- p. 4 Cover.

Narrowly surviving their encounter with Erasers in New York City, the flock is following up a lead on their pasts in Washington, D.C. But what they find waiting for them is...a home?! How will the flock adjust to a real school - one that doesn't involve mad scientists and genetic freaks?

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "Bird Kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.