Those who commit felonies and crimes are sentenced to life on the deserted Carcer Island, 800 miles away from the nearest mainland. No one escapes, with exception of the children who are born on the island. At the age of sixteen, certain children are chosen to embrace a proposed future on the mainland. --- Nadine Pernel lives an ordinary life. Well, mostly. Her father didn't take her coming out as gay very well, her mother refuses to speak to her and she's the school's designated nark. Treated as an inferior by everyone except for her best friend, Alex, life couldn't really change that much. Until a mysterious girl by the name of Hunter Kriek arrives at her school. She's one of the chosen children to escape Carcer Island. As the two bond, Nadine shows Hunter the ways of the mainland in exchange for information of what life is like on Carcer. However, the girls are unaware of a certain evil lurking in the government's hands. Is the mainland really the safe and candor place it promises to be?