After the fall of all governments, mass genocide at the hands of the secret society and healthcare workers refusing care out of fear, the female population declines drastically. Worldwide patriarchy places women at the mercy of men in a twisted barter system created in an attempt to repopulate. Sold by her father eight years ago after the death of her mother, eighteen-year-old Carina is a deep thinker. After being traded up to the final market house in the system, Carina is lost in her thoughts, fighting to keep her humanity as she struggles with the lasting effects of past and present oppressive conditions. Being bought by the twenty-year-old man that runs the desert market house turns out to be the least of her worries. Facing the reality of being sold to a strange man, Carina takes her life (or her death) into her own hands. Carina proves her resilience in this whiplash of an emotional story about trauma bonding, love and loss.