Seventeen-year-old Sophie Tucker's quiet life is thrown into disarray when she finds her father, the mayor of the town, dead in the house. Before she can understand what happened, she is kidnapped by a man who claims to be from a secret government laboratory called the CSES. Filo Hardy hails from a family of the long disappeared great Himalayan Maharishis or the enlightened in India. She wants almost nothing from the world. But the CSES might just have the one thing she can't refuse. Twenty volunteers. Ten lab heads. One trainer. A survival game. It was supposed to be very simple. But what happens when you find you've been lied to, manipulated and not everything is as it seems to be? You break.