Kristen Thomas doesn't fit in. She doesn't look like you. Dress like you. Think like you. She is desperately trying to find any meaning in her life outside of what she is told by everyone around her. The 18-year-old daughter of a USAF officer who is under pressure to follow in her father's footsteps. What she doesn't realize is that she has been born into a life of genetic warfare. For her DNA holds the answers to those off-world and those that control this one.