Emery is a surrogate child: Someone The Continent says was born for a special purpose. On her sixteenth birthday, she is Assigned by The Continent to be an Assassin. Faced with a future seeming riddled with murder, she must find a way to stay true to who she is. But her new home is filled with secrets of its own, some of which leave her wondering: What is her purpose?

Samantha is lost, she wants to feel nothing but all she feels is everything. The emotions twist around her as she soon realizes that the one thing holding her together is tearing her apart even more.