World War III, 2089. Ara Smith knows everything she's supposed to know. She knows how to kill a man. What it takes to break a soul. And she could never forget the Rules. In another world, she'd be the perfect agent. But Ara also knows a hundred things she shouldn't know. How to break the Rules. How to fool a government. How to keep a secret-and how to unravel one, too. Her secret is that she needs no one in the world but herself, despite what her annoying AIs might say. And as for the secret her father's kept from her? Well, it won't stay a secret for very long.