Sixteen year old Louise Finley and her family have been chosen to live in The Garden, a place where select people are given the chance to live off the land with only the bare essentials. It is an experiment designed to test Americans' abilities to survive in the event of an apocalypse. Louise embraces the experience, both because she has a sense of adventure and she has a crush on Gray, also in The Garden with his family. But soon it is apparent that things are not as they seem, and Louise and Gray find themselves in the middle of a dangerous mystery, fighting to survive.
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.