Sixteen year old Synclaire Ritchie has no talents, nothing any sponsoring company would want their logo attached to, at least. All she's good at is limbbreaking, illegally fixing and upgrading prostheses, and no business dares compete with Limbus, the benevolent but monopolistic prosthetic developer. And anyway, why sponsor a limbbreaker when there are up-and-coming actors, singers, sports stars, and other Potentials who can make names for themselves with their talents?
All Syn's ever wanted was a sponsor, ANY sponsor, and with it, a possible future outside of a warehouse. Her final opportunity to get one is about to pass her by. She's almost surrendered to her inevitable future... until she's told there's an offer for her. The biggest designer clothing company in the country, Coolture, wants to mold someone with no potential into the star of the year at Promise Academy, training ground for the future famous, and she's their girl.
With a little camera and makeover magic, Syn is transformed into a celebrity, but it's not everything she imagined. She lives every day in fear of the world finding out she's a fake who didn't earn her place at Promise, risking her the friends and life she's made there. When a rash of deadly accidents start to point to her as the culprit, she wonders what exactly Coolture meant when they said they'd make her a household name. Syn has precious little time to find who's trying to frame her before her most famous picture becomes her mugshot.