Seventeen year-old Acquisitions Specialist Drake Adair is legendary at his job: he can obtain anything from anyone and from anywhere, without getting caught. At least, he's never been caught before. This time things go differently. He ends up on the run from the enemy Guild and takes refuge in a cave, only to get stuck in a pit in the back of the cave. He might be the only living human in there, but he's not alone. Kelsie Blake, Drake's roommate and closest friend since she fled her filicidal father, has secrets. Secrets she keeps even from Drake. When Drake is on missions, Kelsie sneaks outside the Gates into the wild, risking everything for a little excitement. The lies she told to hide her life started small and now threaten everything she cares about most in her life. Set in a world eighty-years after World War III, Kelsie and Drake pair up to stop the enemy Guild. They must each come to grips with his abilities, her secrets, and their mixed feelings for each other. Will they make it? Or will the very foundation of life as they know it be ripped from beneath them.