Arch-Conspirator

 “I’m cursed, haven’t you heard?”

 Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without
the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.

 Antigone’s parents – Oedipus and Jocasta – are dead. Passing into the
Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle
Kreon rising to claim her father’s vacant throne, all Antigone feels is
rage.

 When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees
it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well
as a guest.

 But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he.

From author Veronica Roth:
    “Antigone is fertile ground for adaptation—a play about laws versus ethics, order versus chaos, genetic destiny, and the power women exert even in a system that hems them in on all sides. I loved the challenge of finding the science fiction framework that most allowed those themes to emerge—and above all, the challenge of capturing one of the sharpest female characters I’ve ever read as she faces off with a man far more powerful than herself.