Fleeing Tower agents, Lyra assumes dead heiress Serena Shaw’s identity to investigate Serena’s death and her parents’ accident. Serena’s fiancé, Adrian, distrusts her, but they unite against the Tower’s control of Resonants as inheritable assets. Exposing Vivian and Marcus’s conspiracy, Adrian rejects power while Lyra resists neural suppression through voluntary resonance. They destroy the Tower, and Lyra reclaims her name.