Dessa Lakewood was an ordinary girl, until she wasn't. Within a few short moments she was an orphan, an only survivor in a family of four. The state took control of her life then and put her into the Workforce, a system for the criminally charged... and the lost. Dessa is forced to work and live alongside convicted criminals and be put in the hands of many caretakers, though not all of them as caring as one might think. As any young woman would in such a situation, she gives up, and the rebound sends her on a journey she did not foresee. This story of a girl finding herself is suspenseful and full of plot twists as her world of glass shatters around her.