Division Sixteen

In a society divided into ten zones, obedience is everything.

At the age of six, every child is taken from their parents and sent to Zone Nine-a place of schools and foster homes where the government shapes, monitors, and disciplines its future citizens. Disobedience is not corrected; it is erased. Anyone who resists is sent to Zone Ten, a place whispered about in fear, where rebels are said to be assimilated.

Maxwell Gray has learned to survive by keeping his head down-until his older sister, Thalia, lashes out against the system and is taken away. Branded a rebel, she is sent to Zone Ten and never heard from again.

For years, Maxwell carries her disappearance like a wound. When he turns sixteen and faces the Obedience Test-the exam that determines a citizen's worth-he makes a choice no one else dares to. He plans to fail. If failing means exile to Zone Ten, then that's where he'll go to find his sister.

But when the test results come in, Maxwell's plan unravels. Instead of being sent where he wants, he becomes something far more dangerous to the system-something they didn't expect.

*it has yaoi* 😋