Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves.īut what if winning the war means losing herself? As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam-and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped both her life and America apart-she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. But the truth is only saved in one place: a flashdrive in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future-and who now wouldn't recognize her. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of America's children-and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared and hated outcasts-has survived every attempt to destroy it.
When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children”s League behind. Other kids in the Children”s League call Ruby ‘Leader’, but she knows what she really is: a monster. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living. When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader.īut there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her-East River.
When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed.
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