Civil war, genetically mutated super soldiers, all humans almost eradicated … The world as we know it was destroyed a long time ago, and a powerful group of beings were created … The unrivaled. Nineteen-year-old Thorn is nothing but a human worker, an orphan slave, who has seen nothing of the world but the small area of Old Florida in which she is employed. Simply trying to survive and dodge the notice of the terrifying unrivaled who love to collect, and destroy, beautiful things, she has done a great job of it so far … until she comes face to face with the most feared man in all of Old America … The Puppeteer. After saving her from death at the hands of another unrivaled, the handsome and mysterious Puppeteer now has Thorn under his employ. Within no time, he drags her along on a journey that she has little control of. And as she spirals into the world of the unrivaled, Thorn learns that only one thing matters in this new world … Power. Can Thorn use the unrivaled and their ambition for power to help the Puppeteer with his agenda? One that could potentially save thousands of humans? Will the Puppeteer do the right thing in the end, or will he do what he was born to do—rule the world with manipulation and deceit?