The Protectorate supplies its citizens with everything they need for a contented life: career, love, and even death. But recently, Desiree Six Haven hasn't been exactly thrilled about the fate they've chosen for her. Including the man she's supposed to marry. Even the warm reassurance of the Dreamscape—the program that monitors and programs the sleep of its citizens—can't convince Desiree that something isn't terribly, terribly wrong...

But The Protectorate is there to keep her safe.

Then Desiree receives an unexpected visit from her childhood friend, Darian—a Non-Compliant murderer and an escaped convict who insists he's innocent, and that the enemy is the very institution she depends on that. That she believed in. Now Desiree must choose between the fate that's been decided for her...and a destiny she's never known.