Six years ago the Animorphs won the war with the yeerks. A year later Esplin 9466 was tried for war crimes against humanity and found guilty. The Animorphs had thought things were over and - despite that life would never be the same - were trying to move on. Then three years ago a new threat arose, The One.

When we last saw the Animorphs, Ax, who had been tasked with finding the blade ship that had escaped them in the final showdown, was absorbed by The One. Jake had taken a ship - dubbed The Rachel - into space with a crew of five others, among them Marco and Tobias. Their goal had been to save Ax, but it was too late for that. In an attempt to defeat The One, Jake gave an order to ram The One's ship...

A year later their fate was still unknown, but clearly their attempt to defeat The One hadn't worked. His ship arrived on Earth. Cassie, the only remaining Animorph, did the only thing she could think of. She stole the escafil device and gave the morphing power to three teenagers. This would be her final act, as she was killed shortly thereafter by The One's yeerk worshipers.

It is two years later now, and earth is once again at war. The three teens Cassie recruited have been recruiting their own army of Animorphs to combat not only The One and his followers, but a new batch of yeerks as well. Unknown to them, they and their team of Animorphs are the new pawns of the Ellimist in a three-way game with The One and Crayak. It's anyone's game, and losing could mean the end of the world as we know it.

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