Fifteen-year-old Lillie Forester knows how to stay alive at the dawn of a second U.S. civil war of 2053- don't take sides - let the eastern and western states hash it out. Stay invisible. When a covert faction of dissidents kidnaps her, Lillie first rebels until she realizes the Camp of young people want the same thing she wants: to have the war never happen. She soon discovers that the lines being drawn turn friends into enemies, brothers and sisters into bitter rivals and lovers into traitors. Navigating her way through a war with lines smudging ever grayer can be deadly for anyone who steps in front of her gun. Lillie's search for the truth might also be deadly for her. Two things are born out of a bitter war - misery and love. During war, both can be deadly.