(This is book 2).
It has been five years since first arriving to the nuclear shelter.
Hikari Hada, now 11, wishes for an exciting, fun life outside of being stuck in a underground shelter. A life where she can play and run around in the grass as the sun shines down on her...the sun she hasn't seen in half a decade.
Robin, now known as "Celosia", Beval, Gaia and Kimberly are all in their twenties now, equally stressed out about the state of their shelter.
Celosia, regardless of her friend's annoyance, constantly has her mind on Shimizu, the boy who swept her off her feet five years before.
It was as if all hope was lost until an injured Filipino boy was rescued and taken into the shelter, revealing something that will change everything.
Betrayal will happen, confessions will be voiced, secrets will be exposed, chains will be broken, a journey will be taken, and a New World Order will start as a World Leader will rise to power.
Will Celosia, Gaia, Beval, Kimberly and the others ever be able to leave the nuclear shelter? Will this World Leader be taken down? Will they ever be able to live a normal life again? And most importantly, will this boy be the map to uncovering the truth? What will their destiny be after all of this?
[Editors' Choice 2020]
In a near-future, post-apocalyptic world, a lone girl must choose between becoming the next-in-line to head a corrupt government or siding with those who wish to see the world burn. Order, suppression and lies, or chaos, truth and freedom? Whatever is chosen, one thing is clear: both sides bleed.
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Every year, the Federated United Americas tasks its elite soldiers to participate in a nation-wide Cull. Hundreds of children are taken from homes and put into one of three Facilities. While most of them will be offered comfortable lives in the forms of low-ranking government jobs and militia commandos, a few will be groomed to be the successors for the highest office the FUA has to offer: The Council.
Beckett Blake is known in the Facility as Ten, and she alongside six others branded 'Liars', have spent years enduring confinement and rigorous testing in order to secure a future as head of the FUA. When a terrorist group breaks into the Facility and kidnaps Ten and the others, she's forced to re-examine her future plans.
Required to become a drug runner in the mega-city known as Neon Brights, Ten must decide if the future she'd been promised since childhood is worth the lies it's built upon. Will Ten choose the future that's been decided for her, or will she carve out one all her own, even if that path leads to her destruction?
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