Tempest Shadow has come to Ponyville to serve her sentence, or start her new life, depending on who you talk to. She's about to get far more in the way of life changes than she ever imagined.
After saving Wallflower from an abusive home, Sunset figures the best way to help with her girlfriend's years of trauma is challenging the restrictions she's lived with all her life, like with saying curse words. Turns out, Wally's very good at that.
Starlight and Trixie have long been great and powerful friends, but when that bond of friendship turns into something deeper in Starlight's heart, she feels their friendship is at stake, and fears what will come if she takes the first step.
Sunset Shimmer and Wallflower Blush just started dating. Everything's been going well so far, except for one thing. One nagging suspicion that Sunset can't seem to shake. It doesn't help that Wallflower keeps giving her ample opportunities to worry.
Trouble is brewing. Either Starlight gets to the bottom of it in time, or she could lose Trixie as a friend... Or worse yet, she could lose two friends at once.
Wallflower meets Sunset for the first time... again. This time, she's angry, bitter, and mean, but there's something else as well... something Wallflower doesn't understand...
When a crowd of mouth-breathing alt-right goons interrupts her beach date with Sunset Shimmer, Wallflower Blush calmly and rationally quiets them down. With a baseball bat. With nails stuck through it.
Twilight fights against sinister manipulations, struggling to overcome a deep-seated darkness within. As she battles to preserve everything she cares about, she will sacrifice anything necessary to succeed. But the price of victory may be herself.
In a quiet little flower shop down a Canterlot street, Sunset Shimmer finds an unexpected face from her past. One who'd rather not be forgotten, twice over.