In the Valta, everyone has the same birthday—November 1st, the day war was declared on the Eastern Order. On your seventeenth birthday, Recruiters come for you, and you’re never seen again. For Kress, that day is tomorrow.
Tonight, she’s sixteen. By morning, she’ll be taken, along with her best friend Cardyn and Brohn, the mysterious boy she’s tried to avoid. But recruitment isn’t what any of them imagined. Thrown into weeks of grueling training—psychological tests, escape rooms, combat drills—they’re told they’re the last hope to end the war. Yet, with each test, their reality unravels.
As secrets emerge, Kress realizes escape may be impossible. Can she survive the truth behind recruitment, or will the war claim them all before they understand their true purpose?
