. Stella Winterson is a girl with a future. She's an eighteen-year-old prodigy in a world where smarts are everything, destined to rule the city in which she lives. From looking at her, you'd think she has it all. But You'd be wrong. Gwendolyn Afrika may have started a world war. Sure, she didn't ask for this to happen, but it doesn't change the fact that it's her fault. If she hadn't driven her father to the breaking point.... Well, it's too late now to change the path her world has taken.