By 2116, Earth is dying. Overpopulation and kakistocracy have left coastal megacities suffocating in chaos. Deep in the Californian desert, a secretive human genetics research facility fights to save humanity, experimenting with gene manipulation and selective eugenics on a small group of voluntary subjects. At the center of their work is Evi , the product of six generations of human evolution and the pinnacle of the researchers’ ambition. Brilliant, fearless, and unmatched, she may be humanity’s last hope… or its greatest threat. But salvation demands more than genius. The researchers must also discover a new planet capable of sustaining life and develop the technology to reach it. With the help of an old friend and a crew of unlikely heroes, Evi races against time to bring their interstellar vision to reality. Every decision, every second, could determine the survival—or the destruction—of humankind. The fate of humanity rests in one extraordinary girl and the choices she makes in a world on the edge of extinction.