Tallie can predict the future. At 18 years old, after training for years and sacrificing any kind of life outside of divination, she is ready to enter The Oracus, the facility that houses her nation's Seers.

But her future is ripped away when the gates to the Oracus deny her entry.

Humiliated and lost, she is stripped of her Elite status and sent to the apprentice dormitories as a Pedestrian, the lower echelon of society that receives few of the nation's limited resources.

Tallie's life is over.

Until the nation announces a competition to fill the empty slot in The Oracus.

With a borrowed identity, Tallie enters the Oracus Test. She faces the derision of her competitors, the first crush she never got over (and his new girlfriend), and threats from her own government when they discover her deception.

With torn loyalties, confusion over her worth and purpose, and facing life or death stakes, Tallie is no longer sure what winning the Oracus Test is worth.

Sacrificing her future or her principles?

Betraying those who trust her or risking the lives of those she loves?

Enter The Oracus Test, where seeing the future can't save you from the present.