In a future where few places are habitable and people share their entire lives on the Web, Mila illegally enters the Isles, is captured and has a telephone implanted in her brain. She escapes, but has only one advantage: a seven second delay on her monitored video feed. In just seven seconds, she can fake one direction and take off in the next. Mila must use use her seven seconds wisely to prevent a nationwide disaster--and to save her own life.