After being locked up, and judged all her life Mercy Archer finally gets a chance to start over on the ground, but that doesn't seem to be as easy as she thought. Everyone has heard of the terrible crime she committed, but there is one boy that doesn't seem to be faced by it, John Murphy. They are both two misunderstood people that according to everyone else did terrible things, but did anyone ever stop to listen to the reasons behind their actions? "We fight every night for something, but when the sun sets we're both the same."

"There were three things I knew at the given moment: One, I was alive. Two, I was hurt, though I didn't fully asses the severity of my wounds. Three, I was going to kill John Murphy." It has been 97 years since we turned on each other. 97 years since the nuclear war. 97 years until we found our unity. Ophelia is the daughter of a liberal arts major and an astrophysicist. She was bright, and charming. She had it all going for her, a career in biochemistry, degrees, even jobs in the agriculture branch in the ark. And it all came crashing down with one drug run. Now, she and 99 other criminals- including the narcissistic and rude John Murphy- that were too young to be carelessly murdered have been dropped on to a radiation-fried planet as lab rats in order to save humanity.