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?

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?