NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

Larson is attempting to create the ultimate city on a hill on her ship the Steadfast by taking the best attributes of each past, fallen utopia, but there are secrets on the Steadfast. And when Larson chooses young Amber to follow in her footsteps, people aren't so sure she doesn't have a deep, dark secret of her own. She may be the girl that fulfills an age old prophecy that Larson and her Angels don't want fulfilled, but will Klazena rise to the occasion or fall to her destiny? One age old prophecy. One secret the Gamemaster can never discover. One truth, straightforward and unblinking.