Every year, the president of Moint Star visits all the schools in town and interviews ALL 17 year olds. The point is to find a job to every single one of the teenagers according to their interests and capacities. Barbara Green is seventeen years old and yet she doesn't know how to do anything. Surprisingly, and even though she doesn't want the job, she gets chosen as a soldier. But Barbara doesn't know the real reason why the president forces teenagers to do what they're told to do and, as a soldier, she's about to find out. Barbara is desperate because she doesn't want to be a soldier, but then she meets another soldier -a boy with green, firefly eyes named Harry. Harry is going to show her that being a soldier will be difficult and full of danger, but he is still willing to do anything to protect her. Just remember this: before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger; the person you would take a bullet for is behind the trigger.