It all started that summer. That wonderful, glorious, hair blowing summer, when everything changed. Mom and Dad split, my best friend Grace moved away, and the only crush that I've had my whole entire life decided to chase another girl. Isn't it crazy how you'd think you'll have the greatest summer, but it ends like you dreamed it wouldn't? Exactly. Not to mention, you'd be starting school as a freshman. Alone. How could you make it? Welcome to the mind of Juliet Laightan Carpenter.

"The time for answers is not now," she said. "The time to break has just begun." Avery Rider, a fifteen-year old girl, lives in a society in future dystopian America. The society is built on fear itself. She attends the Academy, in which the society occupies children until they are too broken and dull to really understand the troubles in the world. Avery was never broken, never hurt. This enables her to be selected. She becomes a candidate to join a rebellion and leaves the Academy behind forever when certain events take over. The rebellion plans to overthrow the society and break loose once and for all. Book 1 of the Condemnation Trilogy WattyAwards2015