Dark Days

In a dark future world, a teenager fights to save herself and her neighbors from a government that wants to destroy them all . . .

Humankind's careless treatment of the planet has finally resulted in the death of nearly every living creature on Earth. The people who remain have been herded together into identical living "sectors" surrounded by impenetrable steel, and they're forbidden to leave. Life is grim, but it goes on . . . until the new order decides to start the world over again.

Sixteen-year-old Sia knows she has only fifteen days left to live. She's seen what has happened in other sectors. First the government removes the elite few whom it has chosen to inhabit their new society. Then a cyborg army is sent in to annihilate the rest of the population. And Sia's sector is next.

Her father has virtually vanished. Her mother goes through these last days living in a haze of cheerless acceptance. Her best friend waits foolishly for a miracle. But Sia is determined to experience some of the small things she's missed in her short life before the giant clock in the square ticks down to zero.

Then Mace appears, a proud, dangerous boy with secrets that could change the world. And suddenly, there's a dim light in the darkness, beckoning to Sia with the forbidden promise of rebellion . . . and hope.

Fans of Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, and Pittacus Lore will enjoy this "chilling and all too plausible" story of a young woman persevering in the face of danger, and a terrifying future landscape that makes the worlds of Divergent and The Maze Runner seem like Disneyland (Emma Pass, author of ACID).