Fourteen year-old Rita Morse is the kind of girl that the teen-hating Shadow Regime doesn’t like. She won't put up with crap that isn’t fair. Ever. After she toilet-papers a video game store in retaliation for a ban on teens, the Regime, an army of immortals secretly trying to oppress teens all over the world, adds her to their list of threats. That’s not good, because the Regime’s enemies always disappear. Now Rita’s in the biggest trouble of her life. She’s being stalked, threatened, and nearly kidnapped by shadow people. And the Regime isn’t the only they also control countless humans around the world, some of which are much closer to Rita than she thinks. There’s nowhere to turn. If Rita can’t learn the Shadow Regime’s reason for their war on teens—and her—she might not make it through her first week of high school.

Learning that she's a Guardian, meant to protect the world from evil and injustice, has only been the start of Rita Morse's problems. Now the teen-hating Shadow Regime has returned, with its sights now set on kidnapping and enslaving Rita's classmates. Rita's new powers might not be enough to protect them, and worse, there may be a traitor working in her midst.