Fight for the regime you rebelled against, or die.
For fans of The Hunger Games, Scythe and Skyward: a dystopian thriller of futuristic air battles, moral ambiguity and raw survival.
Sixteen-year-old defiant activist Wren's resistance mission goes catastrophically wrong. Trying to save innocent lives, she's captured by the Equilibrium and sentenced to death.
Her one chance of survival? Join the Shadow Squadron, an elite force of expendable teenage pilots assigned to the regime's dirtiest and most dangerous missions.
The training is brutal, and Wren knows that failure means death. But the real battle begins when she discovers the Squadron is run by an AI that wants to reshape her into its ultimate weapon. Each mission she flies, each directive she follows, makes her feel limitless, and strips away another piece of who she was. Are her thoughts her own anymore?
Finalist, Faulkner-Wisdom Competition
