A dystopian story about love and hate and the power to overcome societal prejudices. Lana Dryden is a first-born Elite whose greatest fear is that she will suffer the same fate as her mother; a forced procreation contract. Defying her abusive father, her government, and the cold and unfeeling Rider - the trained and deadly emissary that the government sent to oversee her contract - Lana risks her life to escape to Ottawa, Canada's only remaining city...