The United States is no more. Split almost down its middle, what once was America has become the Republic and the Colonies, the Western and Eastern coasts. The societies are militaristic to the extreme: in the Republic, all teens have to pass their Trials. Those who don’t score high are cast out into the slums, or worse.
Fifteen-year-old Day did not do well on his Trial. Cast out, he has been fighting the Republic’s efforts to make war on the Colonies wherever he
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can, driven to provide for his family who have no choice but to live in the underbelly of the megacities that now dominate the Republic in what once was California. A raid gone wrong on a hospital leaves a Republic soldier, Metias, wounded, and he eventually dies. Day is now wanted for murder.
Fifteen-year-old June is Metias’s sister. She is the only person ever to score 1500 on her Trial—a perfect score. A military prodigy, the
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