At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay was a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. But when the University was overthrown, Agatha was revealed to be the last of the famous Heterodyne family—and a Girl Genius beyond anyone’s imaginings. Now she has escaped from the people who want to control her; and must make her way across treacherous wastelands to find her place in a world of monsters and madmen.