An unwilling participant in a cryopreservation experiment, engineering student Miranda Donovan wakes after a century to find that basic rights in the post-American society must be earned. Genetic testing reveals her best chance of success lies in a brutal military flight academy, but time is short. She can only hide cryo's crippling effects on her body for so long. Feeling a stalker closing in, she becomes desperate to get the protection of the most powerful of the dystopian clans before it's too late. One misstep, one miscalculation, and she'll have a lot more to fear than death.