In the aftermath of a cataclysmic event, sixteen-year-old Evie, from a well-to-do Louisiana family, learns that her terrible visions are actually prophecies and that there are others like herself - embodiments of Tarot cards destined to engage in an epic battle. She has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress. As one of 22 teens given powers following the apocalypse, she knows a war is brewing and it's kill or be killed as she chooses between the immortal knoght Death and her boyfriend Jack. Now, in order to protect Jack from two of the most horrific Arcana, The Lovers, and the vast army they command, Evie leaves the comfort offered by Death and joins her allies in a frozen and perilous post-apocalyptic wasteland, but for her battle plan to succeed, she must persuade Death and Jack to work together.