18-year-old Natalie (Tallie) Kowalczyk can predict the future. After training for years, she is ready to enter a secretive facility called The Oracus, where she will work for her government as a Seer, but the induction ceremony goes wrong. The gates to The Oracus won't let her pass. Publicly humiliated, stripped of her Elite status, and separated from her parents, Tallie is forced to live with the lower echelon of her society and hide in anonymity. When her nation announces a competition to fill the empty spot in The Oracus, Tallie is determined to win and reclaim her future. She doesn't expect to fall under the careful watch of the intimidating leader of the nation, to be a outcast among the other contestants, or to compete against the first love she never got over - and his new girlfriend. When the stakes rise to life or death, Tallie must decide whether the future she'd always planned on is worth sacrificing everything else she grows to care about, and the truths she learns along the way.