Published by Putnam Juvenile
ISBN 0399256768 (ISBN13: 9780399256769)

SYNOPSIS:
“June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—-June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.
It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.
But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?” 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marie Lu writes dystopian stories. (Ironically, she was born in 1984. Witnessing the Tiananmen Square protests as a 5-year old probably also left an impression!) Before she started writing full time, Marie was the art director at a video game company. She graduated from USC in ’06 and lives in Los Angeles, where she spends her time reading, writing, drawing, playing Assassin’s Creed, and getting stuck on the freeways.