Meet Tippy Lopez. She was born forty years after the destruction of Earth. Where Mother Nature ripped the planet apart, creating small islands. During this time pirates seized all control, forging their own laws. But there was one clan that refused to follow pirate rules. The Naturals. For two years Tippy and her friends wanted to be just like them, and they were. They secretly broke pirate law, hiding the orphans from a pirate life. Until one awful night the Commodore raids their island and catches them in the act.

Six years into their punishment, their prison is attacked and Tippy and her friends are captured by the Naturals. But this clan is not what the rumors say. They aren’t the saviors Tippy once thought. Instead of helping the orphans, they force them into four gruesome phases, where only the strong survive and the weak are killed. If Tippy and her friends want to escape, they will need to be among the strongest. But with her friends hardened by prison life, she fears, when the time comes, she won’t be able to stop them from joining. Especially when the prize at the end is revealed. Not even Tippy can trust herself from becoming a Natural.