when being unique puts you in danger and speaking your mind can be punishable by death you might find yourself fighting to survive sixteenyearold rosa lives in one of the eight enclosed cities of the woodlands where the lone survivors of a devastating race war have settled in the russian wilderness because its the only scrap of land left habitable on the planet in these circular cities everyone must abide by the law or face harsh punishment rosas inability to conform and obey the rules brands her a leper and no one wants to be within two feet of her until she meets joseph hes blonde fairskinned greeneyed and the laidback complete opposite of rosa shes never met anyone quite like him and she knows that spells danger but differences werent always a bad thing people used to think being unique was one of the most treasured of traits to have now the superiors who ruthlessly control the concrete cities with an iron fist are obsessed with creating a raceless race they are convinced this is the only way to avoid another war any anomalies must be destroyed the superiors are unstoppable and can do anything they want after all they are considered superheroes by the general public but not everyone sees them this way when they continue to abuse their power by collecting young girls for use in their secret hightech breeding program they have no idea that one of those girls has somehow managed to make friends even she didnt know she had and one man will stop at nothing to save her