Prodigy

June Iparis and Daniel Wing, known as Day, have been on the run for seven days since they got out of Los Angeles. June is wanted for treason against the Republic. Day is wanted for a crime he did not commit. Both are believed dead, and they head for Las Vegas, the Republic's farthest military outpost, to find a rebel group called the Patriots.

They reach the city as the country lurches into upheaval. Elector Primo, who had been ailing, is dead, and his son Anden now holds the office. The Patriots offer shelter and a task: help kill the new Elector before he can secure his hold on power.

June is the one who gets close to Anden, and what she sees unsettles her. He may be the reformer the Republic needs, and she starts to doubt that the Patriots are as righteous as they claim. Day's young companions Tess and Eden travel with them, and a Patriot pilot named Kaede flies them into danger.

The pressure builds from the first chapter, and the two fugitives have opposing instincts. June and Day must weigh loyalty to the people who rescued them against loyalty to their own sense of right, while a wider conspiracy closes in on both.