Fifteen-year-old Evie Beekins has been kept from the world all her life. Raised on a compound in a cult-like rural community where her days are completely controlled and utterly routine, one day her parents drive her to a courthouse and inform her that today is her wedding day, whether she wants it to be or not. Facing her potential groom, Evie searches for a way to escape the suffocating fate being forced upon her by her mother, father, and a willing judge.