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Recruitment

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Your seventeenth birthday is the last day you can count on. No one makes plans for eighteen.

In the Valta, everyone turns a year older on November 1st. Turn seventeen, and the Recruiters come for you.

No one ever hears from you again.

Today, Kress is sixteen. Tomorrow, she'll find out why.

Taken alongside her best friend and Brohn—the enigmatic boy she's spent her life avoiding—Kress is thrust into weeks of brutal training. Hand-to-hand combat. Escape rooms. Psychological tests that leave her q...