In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, brilliant, and one of a growing number of human beings who are genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now the "Sleepless" are outcasts, victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society and, ultimately, from Earth. But Leisha has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift," a world marked for destruction by a deadly conspiracy of freedom and revenge.
