Black Dove (Watty Awards 2012)

Avalynne Southwood doesn't speak. She won't. Everyone is at war with each other, peace seems impossible, and Avalynne's life has been torn to shreds by it. All she has left of her life is the necklace her father gave her--the black dove--and a knowledge that she can never give up. But her world is rocked when a young man arrives at the refugee camp--and she suddenly becomes a symbol of peace and unity to the masses...which gains her deadly enemies. Enemies that are so powerful, they could tear the world apart.