A girl is woken early from her cryogenic slumber to find the authoritarian rule her family had hoped to escape is still very much in effect in this chilling (Kirkus Reviews) young adult dystopian thriller perfect for fans of Divergent and Sunrise on the Reaping. In the months since a dictator was elected president, the United States has been turned upside down. Dissenters are deemed terrorists, including sixteen-year-old Ellie Jacobss family. To escape persecution, the four of themEllie, her younger brother Scott, and their parentsdecide to freeze themselves cryogenically for ten years in her fathers lab. In ten years, things will be better. They have to be. But the government discovers the lab after only three years and thaws Ellie early. She awakens, completely alone, to a nightmare of a strange new world and is told the rest of her family didnt survive. Suddenly, she must abandon everything she knows to go to through ReAdmittance and become Initiated. Ellie is terrifieduntil her boyfriend, Ryan, now a nineteen-year-old Initiated soldier, shows up and tells her everything will be fine, that she should trust the good people around her. But Ellie isnt sure if she can still trust Ryan. What Ellie doesnt know is that Scott never went through with the freeze. He ran away and has joined a band of teenage resistance fighters living in the mountains. No longer her younger brother, hes now sixteen just like her. When Scott learns Ellie has been thawed early, he decides he must risk everything to save her before the brainwashing begins. Together with other brave rebel teens, Ellie and Scott must navigate this terrible new world to find their way back to each other before they lose everythingincluding who they are.

A girl is woken early from her cryogenic slumber to find the authoritarian rule her family had hoped to escape is still very much in effect in this chilling (Kirkus Reviews) young adult dystopian thriller perfect for fans of Divergent and Sunrise on the Reaping. In the months since a dictator was elected president, the United States has been turned upside down. Dissenters are deemed terrorists, including sixteen-year-old Ellie Jacobss family. To escape persecution, the four of themEllie, her younger brother Scott, and their parentsdecide to freeze themselves cryogenically for ten years in her fathers lab. In ten years, things will be better. They have to be. But the government discovers the lab after only three years and thaws Ellie early. She awakens, completely alone, to a nightmare of a strange new world and is told the rest of her family didnt survive. Suddenly, she must abandon everything she knows to go to through ReAdmittance and become Initiated. Ellie is terrifieduntil her boyfriend, Ryan, now a nineteen-year-old Initiated soldier, shows up and tells her everything will be fine, that she should trust the good people around her. But Ellie isnt sure if she can still trust Ryan. What Ellie doesnt know is that Scott never went through with the freeze. He ran away and has joined a band of teenage resistance fighters living in the mountains. No longer her younger brother, hes now sixteen just like her. When Scott learns Ellie has been thawed early, he decides he must risk everything to save her before the brainwashing begins. Together with other brave rebel teens, Ellie and Scott must navigate this terrible new world to find their way back to each other before they lose everythingincluding who they are.

A girl is woken early from her cryogenic slumber to find the authoritarian rule her family had hoped to escape is still very much in effect in this chilling (Kirkus Reviews) young adult dystopian thriller perfect for fans of Divergent and Sunrise on the Reaping. In the months since a dictator was elected president, the United States has been turned upside down. Dissenters are deemed terrorists, including sixteen-year-old Ellie Jacobss family. To escape persecution, the four of themEllie, her younger brother Scott, and their parentsdecide to freeze themselves cryogenically for ten years in her fathers lab. In ten years, things will be better. They have to be. But the government discovers the lab after only three years and thaws Ellie early. She awakens, completely alone, to a nightmare of a strange new world and is told the rest of her family didnt survive. Suddenly, she must abandon everything she knows to go to through ReAdmittance and become Initiated. Ellie is terrifieduntil her boyfriend, Ryan, now a nineteen-year-old Initiated soldier, shows up and tells her everything will be fine, that she should trust the good people around her. But Ellie isnt sure if she can still trust Ryan. What Ellie doesnt know is that Scott never went through with the freeze. He ran away and has joined a band of teenage resistance fighters living in the mountains. No longer her younger brother, hes now sixteen just like her. When Scott learns Ellie has been thawed early, he decides he must risk everything to save her before the brainwashing begins. Together with other brave rebel teens, Ellie and Scott must navigate this terrible new world to find their way back to each other before they lose everythingincluding who they are.