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Valerie "Val" Miller was never meant to be a hero. Raised in the shadows of the Ark by a man the world believed was a gentle engineer-but who she knew as her protector, mentor, and, unknowingly, a monster-Val learned early that survival comes at a cost. Trained to fight, conditioned to obey, and abandoned by the family who chose her twin brother over her, she enters the Skybox with blood on her hands and walls around her heart.
When the Ark sends its delinquents to Earth, Val expects death. What she finds instead is freedom, danger, and the terrifying possibility of connection. Haunted by Elias's betrayal, torn between loyalty and fear, and armed with skills no teenager should possess, Val must decide who she wants to be on the ground: the weapon she was shaped into... or the girl she never had the chance to become.
And when Bellamy Blake sees through her armor, when old ghosts rise, and when betrayal strikes again-Val learns that surviving the ground is easy. Surviving herself is the real battle.