Elodie Michaels lives in a world where reproductive rights are controlled by the government and teen pregnancy is illegal…but no one told her that. Raised by her mother in a small island community just outside the government’s reach, Elodie is content to live a shielded life until her world comes crashing down when her mother and boyfriend die fighting a cause she didn’t even know existed.

Soon their deaths begin to reveal the truth to Elodie and she flees the island to live with the father she believed to be dead—the father who runs the same government agency her mother died trying to stop. Now Elodie is thrust into a world where bodies are altered under the law, people have their rights taken away, and you must not question the system. Befriended by Riley, a neighbor swept up in teen life, and Riley’s brother Luke, whose kindness softens the edges of her grief, Elodie begins to accept her new fate until it is revealed by her desperate stepmother that she arrived carrying a secret.

Coerced into a dangerous scheme by her stepmother, Elodie’s life spins out of control when lies begin to unfold and she is forced into a decision—stay and keep allowing others to control her life…or make a perilous escape for the chance to hold on to all that she loves.