Lotte wishes for death like one wishes for candy.
After centuries of existence, and the deaths of millions at her hands, she's not sure what's left to serving the "greater good." If there ever was one to begin with.
Amongst the few things that have kept her searching, nothing has kept her attention quite like the stars. Whispers of light that skim across galaxies or flaming fingers prying out the cores of planets. She can see herself in them. Pieces of who she was, what she used to be, and what she's become.
Now, tasked with preparing the cosmos for a new age, Lotte can't help but wonder if there is truly more out there than just living, breathing and dying. And with inter-dimensional warfare, a mid-millennium identity crisis, and a spunky group of teenagers banging her door down, she has to figure out if it has worth to her at all. Or if she would have been better off burning away all those centuries ago.
Maxine is an 18-year-old girl who is bored and lonely, living in California in the year 2351. She's always been fascinated with how humans used to live in houses, drive cars, and the fact that there used to be forests and parks everywhere. Now, after a war that nearly erased humanity, people are forced to live a strict, dull, communist lifestyle. Everyone seems okay with this way of life. Everyone except Maxine. Maxine had always been special; she was often able to predict events. How? She didn't exactly know...yet. When she starts having dreams about a tropical island where people live as they did in the 21st century, she meets the man of her dreams: literally. Her new boiling emotions bring her to wonder...what if it's a real place? When she starts her search for the island and bumps into Elis-the man in her dreams-she suddenly knows it wasn't all just a making of her imagination. Finding that island could mean finding the answers to her burning questions, and maybe even answers to questions she didn't know she had.
However, not everything is what she thought it would be when she finally finds the island, and her dreams become a harsh reality. Elis turns out to be someone else, and when another man swoops in every time Maxine is in danger, she becomes confused about what love really is. The Advisors, the ten women governing the world, want to assimilate the people of the island, not knowing that those people have an extreme advantage over them. Maxine also learns that her family has been lying to her about who she really is. Ultimately, when the Advisors come to destroy the island, she must face the fact that she is the key to the island's salvation, and embracing her rapidly developing abilities is the only way to do so.