In the future, some things never change. Sarah Kirushenko is a human child like any other, despite an extreme IQ. Just because she studies classes eight years more advanced than her peers doesn't mean her favorite hobby isn't raising hell with her gang of older brothers, or that she's not stuck watching her baby brother, or getting into bloody fights with her hateful little sister. All she wants is to break the record and have a diploma before her tenth birthday. But the year 2263 is no shining star for Sarah and her many siblings. Dragged around the galaxy by their archeologist father, they harbor a shocking load of secrets. No one ever planned on bad luck, but tragedy and violence have stalked their family for generations. Trapped on the blistering wastelands of Navara, far from the Russian home they long for, things are quickly going from bad to unbearable. When it seems like nothing can possibly get worse, Father is arrested for murder. Can twelve children raise themselves on an alien world? Will Sarah survive with her education - and her sanity - intact?