After joining an elusive revolutionary group her father co-founded, seventeen year-old Marilou Norith will be the one to move corruption back into the pages of history. Leon, their eager young leader, promises a new world. One that starts with the careful removal of the man who murdered her the Emperor. The plan: Take out corrupt government leaders and change the fate of her small island country for the better. How: A memory-erasing serum that leaves its victims a blank slate, giving them a chance to start over. Become good. The result: A country without war, without corruption. Peace. And above that…the downfall of the Emperor. What’s in the way: The Emperor’s deadliest Elite soldier, who’s tasked with bringing her in. And, as she follows the plan deeper, doubts about the rebellion becoming harder to ignore. But when the young Elite soldier finally captures her, and ends up being like her in impossible, distracting ways, the plan goes sideways. It crumbles completely when the Emperor disproves everything that shaped her motives, and shows that the promises of the rebellion, even the serum itself, were only death in disguise. When the rebellion suddenly rises to impossible strength, threatening the country she meant to save and the people she’s unexpectedly come to love, Marilou must discover if she can ally with the enemy to defend what she believes is right—even if it means dooming someone who was never really dead.