In The New World: The Awakening, God has lost hope and faith in His creation and is planning to destroy it and start anew. Mankind's only hope to stop God from His plans of destruction rests in the hands of Lyric Daniels, a goddess incarnate from the alternate reality Gaia.

As Lyric's mission begins, she struggles with the ability to ascend Earth, knowing that that's the only way. For some reason, her powers are foreign to her, and she can't remember how to harness and awaken them. But once she finds her memory, which she stored away for safekeeping, she can convince God that mankind is worth saving.

Accompanied by her best friends, Miles and Denise, and under the protection and guidance of her Gaian, her twin soul, Jason, Lyric endures life-threatening trials and tribulations along the way. Unbeknownst to her, the journey will become more difficult than she could have ever imagined.

In the end, she will be faced with the decision to either sacrifice herself to save Earth, or to return to Gaia and live out her last incarnate life with Jason.