For fifteen-year-old Echo Monat, life revolved around classes at Bakerton High School, studying for the Citizen Fitness Examination, and dreaming. She dreamed of a house that could not exist, people who did not exist, and a life that she had never known. Everything in Bakerton was planned, calculated, cold, and sterile. It was a world she wanted to be a part of - a world where she would have a purpose. When you're fifteen, life doesn't always turn...