Recently orphaned, 17 year old Eugenia Melrose Patel, or Cherry, as she prefers to be called, is thrust into a chaotic life or death fight to save the distant planet Earth from her own government. After the death of her mother, Cherry is sent to work and live in the Capitol of the new planetary system, Alpha Kepler Aurora System Axis (AKASA). Through her duties, she unwittingly uncovers a plot to let Earth die in order to protect AKASA from Earth's parasitic dependency on the new System. Cherry brings her evidence to the people she trusts, only to have them betray her. Confused and desperate, Cherry is forced to face who she, and those she cares for, really are as she decides whether or not to save a planet that is not her own. Racing against the clock, will Cherry make the ultimate sacrifice to save a world she barely knows?