Meanwhile, Callum's elder brother, Jude, and his father, Ryan, join the Liberation Militia (LM), a violent paramilitary organisation against Cross supremacy.
Jasmine, remembering her prior friendship with the McGregor family, secretly hires a prominent Cross lawyer to defend Ryan.
Informing the rest of the LM about Andrew, the remaining members agreed to split up and keep a low profile, not meeting up again until Callum's birthday.
Sephy then begins to experience strange symptoms, and takes a pregnancy test, revealing that she is pregnant with Callum's child.
Sephy's life begins to fall apart, as the Crosses hate her for helping Jude escape the noose, and the Noughts because she did not come to his aid sooner.
She becomes angry with her mother for hiding the truth and decides to follow in the path of her father, cutting off her friendship with Tobey despite his attempts to apologise.
As a Nought boy at an exclusive school, he hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave behind the dangerous streets of his childhood.
In his resulting depression, Tobey briefly joins Nought Forever, the Liberation Militia's spiritual successor, but soon quits.
Callie Rose attends law school and later works for a prominent lawyer, becoming one of the best barristers in the country; Nathan is killed in a hit-and-run, leaving Sephy and Troy devastated.
However, several of Dan's former enforcers murder Misty and take the teenagers captive themselves, demanding that Callie Rose drop Tobey as a client and that he pleads guilty.
In an effort to get Callie Rose to comply with the kidnappers' demands, Tobey tells her that Sephy murdered Dan, and that he covered for her by planting evidence to make himself appear guilty.
Despite this revelation and the danger to Libby and Troy, Callie Rose continues to defend Tobey, who pleads his innocence as the trial begins.
Sephy left the party early but later returned to find Dan dead; she was caught on CCTV handling the murder weapon, leading Tobey to believe she killed him.
Upon discovering this from Callie Rose, Sephy tracks down and questions several of the other guests, deducing the real murderer's identity.
Sephy also accepts Sonny's proposal, but continues to suffer from nightmares of Callum, still tormented with guilt over his death 36 years earlier.
Having concealed Sephy's presence at Dan's party, Callie Rose is arrested for obstruction of justice, and despite being quickly bailed out, her legal career is effectively ruined.
She and Tobey work relentlessly to track down Troy and Libby, enlisting the aid of Callie Rose's trusted private investigator Duba and Dan's former primary enforcer Jarvis.
Evading and killing several of Eva's enforcers, Duba retrieves Troy and Libby, anonymously contacts Tobey to reinstate Misty's original deal for a vast amount of money, and locks the teenagers in a car rigged with a bomb.
Sephy, Callie Rose, Tobey, Duba, Sonny, and Jarvis then confront Eva, who has seized control of Dan's criminal enterprises and has had Owen Dowd assassinated.
She admits to hijacking Troy and Libby's kidnapping and having Misty killed, but also informs them that neither she nor Dan ordered Nathan's death, confirming that Sonny murdered him.
In a video message recorded by Sephy prior to her death, she informs Callie Rose and Tobey that she discovered Dan was murdered by his butler for impregnating his teenage daughter.
The group elects not to turn in the culprit, and the case against Tobey is ultimately dropped due to lack of evidence, allowing him to continue as prime minister.
Jarvis murders Eva and assumes control of the criminal underworld on Tobey's orders, but Callie Rose finds out.
Taking her mother's last words to heart, she agrees to marry Tobey in order to save him from himself, on the condition that he commits no further crimes and to always be completely honest with her.
Libby finally meets her father, and she moves in with Callie Rose, Troy and Meggie, as does Tobey following the wedding.
During the next three months Libby is elected head student of Heathcroft High, and she and Troy form a sibling relationship and undergo therapy for their experiences, while Callie Rose considers starting a career in politics.
While he shows her the way back to town, Sephy badly injures her foot and Callum then talks her into spending the night with him in an abandoned shack for her to recover.
The two are then surprised by the rest of the gang, and Jude and Callum point their guns at each other; Sephy takes advantage of the confusion to flee.
Minerva panicks, but Sephy remains unalarmed by the danger; she tells Jude he would be doing her a favour by killing her, as she only wishes for death in Callum's absence.
The novella concludes without revealing the outcome of her decision, but Crossfire suggests that Eva continued to hide Dan but ultimately convinced him to turn himself in, and remained a friend and mother figure to him during his imprisonment and his later career as a gangster.