Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a 16-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist. Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. No one must discover that Elysia isn't the unfeeling clone she pretends to be. Beta is a haunting, unforgettable story of courage and love in a uncorrupted world.