In a dystopian future where a handful of families ruthlessly control the limited resources of a ravaged world, much of which is simply referred to as The Waste, a woman named Forever Carlyle is a Lazarus.

Genetically and technologically modified to be deadly and indestructible, conditioned to obey her parents and siblings, she is charged with defending the Carlyle family’s holdings and enforcing their rule. But someone’s stirring up war and Forever is about to learn some hard truths about family loyalty.