Years

Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Meekai is a Gaia child, a girl born with a gene that helps her survive the machines that humanity have created to stay alive. Every fifty years a Gaia child is put into the machine and steps out without having aged a day. Everyone they’ve ever known however, are either elderly or dead. Cheyenne wants to avoid this fate at all costs and make sure that she isn’t the one forced into the machine.

What would you sacrifice to save the world?

In the future one thing keeps the entire planet going, the Gaia Machine. The only problem is that it feeds on the life force of people to run. This has led to certain people being born with the Gaia Gene, the ability to go into the machine for a full fifty-year cycle without fear of aging.

Cheyenne Meekai has the Gaia Gene and whether she wants to or not she’s going to have to save the world, but it might cost her everything in the process. The years served in the machine fly by for the person inside but outside life moves on, meaning when she gets out everyone she knows will either be elderly or dead.

Fifty years is a long time especially when you’re only sixteen, can she save the world and still have some sort of life, or will the demands of the Gaia Machine be more than she can handle?