No more feelings. No more choices. That's the way the world must be if we want to survive. But I know the truth... Evangeline's community of Impetus has learned to survive and prevent the self-destructing mistakes of The Before. By inhibiting feelings with the drug Remedy, they've created a society that relies wholly on logic and entrusts Impetus to make all the decisions for its people. Life could be easy, if one was content with the lies. When a forbidden friendship forms in a chance encounter with Gavin, a boy who lives in the outside woods, Evangeline's conviction in the world she has always known is challenged, and she discovers a choice she didn't think she had. Defying Impetus on her 18th birthday, Evangeline is propelled through a journey of awakened truths, divided worlds, power struggles, and love triangles. For the first time in her life, physical and emotional feelings force her to see Gavin and the world in new, confusing ways. Broken and tested, Evangeline must determine who she trusts, who she loves, and who she's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of what's right and to fight what she believes is wrong.