This book is about a teenage girl named Ailen trying to find her younger brother Alec and get to a safe place where she dosnt need to hide who she is. Ailen, Alec,and many more have inherited traits from the first few hundred people to first land on their new home. As for the people who don't have special abilities, fear them. Punishments for being blessed, or cursed, with these abilities face one of three punishments: being an exsperiment till the tests kill you, being sent to the pit(a hole in the ground that leads to underground rooms), or death. When Ailen gets cought she has no other choice but to work with a group of new people- Lily, Maddox, Ash, Harper, and Charlotte- to fight for their lives all while being wrapped in drama looking for her brother and freedom.