Walled cities. Citizens with dead eyes and perfect smiles. Government domination. In this near future, Candace fights to save a small band of Outsiders even as she struggles to maintain her own humanity.

Candace will never trust society. A friend’s sorority branding and Candace’s assault while in police custody are the last straws. That’s why when a powerful leader takes over the North American continent in a merciless coup, Candace decides to escape the new government into the abandoned forests. There she must fight for survival with a group of fellow rebels living near Omni, one of the massive walled cities of the new world.

When Candace and her partner, Blake, are forced to make a rare and dangerous trip into Omni, they can’t discern what makes the “Civis” of Omni different or why they seem to be mere shadows of human beings. After Candace is captured and held captive, she learns the dark secrets of the perfectly conformist society. Candace vows to save the Outsiders from the fate of the Civis, but she will be faced with an impossible choice that might cost her everything—even her humanity.

In this chilling vision of the future is a dire warning about the consequences of jeopardizing freedom for the ambitions of one tyrannical leader.