"Sometimes I get the feeling we're not that far away from Earth. I feel like everyone on this ship is hiding something. Doesn't it seem strange there aren't any windows on Galileo? What's out there they don't want us to see? It's like we're trapped inside some bizarre experiment - like some sort of space zoo."
Earth has been left for dead. In the wreckage of global warming, scientists have scrambled to design Galileo, a space ark sustaining generations of humans across trillions of miles of travel in hopes to someday colonize the planet coined as Earth Two. Or at least that's the story those born onboard have been told.
Rosie Voss and Jules Engel are star-crossed eighteen-year-olds from two isolated sides of the ship. They were never supposed to meet, let alone fall in love. A chance encounter leads them to uncover the inconsistencies with the histories their respective sides have been told, as well as their true purpose on Galileo: to serve as unbeknownst subjects in an experimental study of children growing up in captivity.
Confronted with the lies they've been brought up on, Rosie and Jules set out to reveal the truth Galileo hides and form a plan to rebel, even if it means risking their families and their lives trying...