


Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves.

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.Īs 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. 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. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. She turns to Cole, his older brother, to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down Gray and the government. Meanwhile, reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having tampered with his memories of her. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the "rehabilitation camps" housing thousands of other Psi kids. They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds.

With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup.
