Astra just wants to be free of her Puritan responsibilities. To live free with her love, Elia. But in a world where breeding is a priority, homosexuality is not an option. When Elia is murdered, Astra flees in order to escape Mother Marianne's tyrannical rule over her life. Years later, she has found a sense of peace and belonging while hiding in the Borderlands that she has never known before. Until a raid crashes her new life and she is forced to return in order to rescue her best friend and her unborn child from genetic experimentation by a government agency. She is confronted with her past, horrifying truths about herself, her parents, and about why her mother was so controlling and cold her whole life. She finds an ally in the most unlikely of places, and they work together to tell the world the terrible truth about what has really been going on.