The unrivaled are already the strongest, the most powerful, yet they will not cease the war amongst themselves to reach the top of the hierarchy and to eradicate … The humans. Thorn is just a girl trying to navigate the new world of the unrivaled, mainly because she has become one of them. Regardless, she will not stop trying to protect the rest of the human population, having once thought to be a normal human girl and having lived their life of servitude and suffering. However, one man keeps distracting her from that goal … Luca. The man behind the mask of the Puppeteer, the most powerful and feared unrivaled of them all, has Thorn trying to balance the unrivaled’s domain of power and hierarchy while struggling to keep her distance from him. So, while the unrivaled continue their schemes, trying to rise to the top, Thorn internally battles her growing crush on … The Puppeteer. In the end, the ones whom she thought she could count on are the ones she should have never trusted, and the ones who she once feared and despised will become her biggest allies. The real question is: will Thorn survive in this world of power and manipulation or succumb to the deception and agony?