First published 2025
Eternity Price sits on death row at eighteen, facing execution unless she can win over America. She gets cast on Last Chance Live, the country's biggest reality show where death row inmates compete for clemency. The rules are brutal: lose the audience vote and face execution within a week of elimination. Eternity has never been popular, so her odds look grim. But even a slim chance beats waiting to die in her cell, especially when it might reunite her with her little brother Sincere. Inside the reality TV house, Eternity discovers something unexpected. The other condemned contestants become her first real friends. When she gets a chance to sabotage them and secure her own survival, she faces an impossible choice. She can betray her newfound community to save herself, or protect these relationships that finally give her the acceptance she has craved. The game forces Eternity to decide what matters more: her life or her humanity.
Genres: drama, contemporary, thriller, young-adult, 21st-century, social-justice
Vibes: dark, emotional, intense, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, moral-choice, underdog-story
Setting: America
Period: 21st century
544 pages · Hardcover · Nancy Paulsen Books
Content warnings: death, violence