Elle Marsh is an orphan. Her pArents were killed in the War of Ages, a fierce war between the Protectors and the Rogues of Flin. Elle has always lived with her best friend, Alice, blocking out her past and spending her days in the Inside, a computer generated interactive world implanted in every child's brain. In the Inside, Elle is pretty, popular and perfect. On the Outside, She is cunning, daring, and adventurous. After a series of conflicts forces the Committee to shut the Inside down, Elle is forced to look into her past, and confront the real reason her parents were slaughtered.
As Elle's cystic fibrosis approaches the terminal phase she finds herself on an unexpected adventure in WWII era New York. Here she encounters a young incarnation of her grandmother and her grandmother's brother whose death in the War will go on to leave a deep wound in the family that Elle must try and heal.
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