Eliana Brooks lives in a dystopian American society. Due to overpopulation, at age 13, you get a dot on the back of your hand. Green, you live, red, you die. Then at age 16, you get rated on your beauty on a scale from 1-10, ten being the prettiest/most handsome. Finally, at age 19, you get locked in the panic room, where you have to face your worst fears. To top it all off, you have a black mark somewhere on your body where your soulmate touches you for the first time. She wants nothing more than to get rid of it all. She wants out.