WE LIVE OUR STORIES, SERVING OUT VITAL ROLES, HAPPY TO KNOW WE ARE A PART OF THE COLLECTIVE When environmental disaster threatened to end all life on earth, humanity came together and created The World Collective. Using The Code, a computer program that tracks every detail, citizens live in harmony, each ensured a full life story with access to food, medicine, education, and meaningful work as part of the collective. But what happens when The Code is hacked? The last terrorist attack happened eight years ago. Ry was the only survivor. Now fourteen, she can't help but notice everything is happening too fast, especially when she is activated for her vital role four years early. A terrorist has tampered with the coding that controls vital roles and Ry has been assigned to the very team tasked with his capture. As Ry adapts to life as an adult in a new city and working to make new friends, she begins to see that more is at stake than a couple kids being forced to grow up too fast. Because The Code controls every aspect of life... And death.