We thought curing death would solve our problems, but our problems were just beginning.

When the human lifespan was expanded to three hundred years, the government implemented the Turnover, a mandatory career change every fifty years, in order to maintain the social stability previously created by the natural churn of aging. For the United States, the cure was worse than the disease, and the social disorder created by this well intentioned mandate led to a civil war only stopped by a deadly plague.

Miami, isolated by rising ocean levels, was spared the worst of the fighting and maintained the turnover system. Now, almost one hundred and fifty years after the war, the people of the Free State of Miami have accepted the Turnover as a just solution to a complex problem and have faith in the professionalism of the Turnover Bureau to guide people to their next turnover through a series of aptitude tests followed by specialized training.

Malcolm Rivers was a police detective who helped develop the Turnover Bureau security protocols but turning over never worked for him. Instead of suffering in silence, he spurned society and lives off shore in the flooded remains of Miami Beach where he works informally as a private investigator. Malcolm is asked to investigate the murder suicide of Rodrigo and Laura Alvarez, the founders of the Foundation, a non-profit that encourages people to turnover at 25 years instead of 50. Malcom finds that the deaths were actually an extremely well planned murder. So well planned that it couldn't have been the work of one person.

But who would want to kill two of Miami's most respected people? And more importantly why?

Sherra Forde was sure her mother was going to ace all of the exams for her next turnover. A career in biochemistry was waiting after one turnover driving a bus and another turnover cleaning hotel rooms. Her mother was too smart and too dedicated not to do something really amazing for this next phase, and the promise of the turnover is that everyone gets a chance to achieve greatness in a field that's suitable for them. But the Turnover Bureau decided her next turnover would be as a kindergarten teacher. Her mother couldn't take the disappointment and jumped from the 32nd story window of the hotel room she was cleaning. Sherra is driven to prove that her mother was cheated out of her rightful Turnover. Investigating the man who proctored her mother's exams leads Sherra to the Foundation where she goes undercover as a volunteer and finds a charity much different behind the scenes than what is presented to the world. But understanding the complex reasons for her mother's death and discovering the people behind it might threaten not just Sherra's life but the foundations of Miami itself.

Told from multiple points of view, The Turnover is the best kind of speculative fiction, a combination of intelligent and lush world design with a compelling plot full of unexpected twists.