The Selection meets The 5th Wave in this heart-racing debut
duology about a girl competing for a spot on a mysterious mission to the
outer reaches of space.
THE RULES ARE SIMPLE: You must be gifted. You must be younger than
twenty-five. You must be willing to accept the dangers that you will
face if you win.
Eighteen-year-old Cassandra Gupta's entire life has been leading up to
this--the opportunity to travel to space. But to secure a spot on this
classified mission, she must first compete against the best and
brightest people on the planet. People who are as determined as she is
to win a place on a journey to the farthest reaches of the universe.
Cassie is ready for the toll that the competition will take; the
rigorous mental and physical tests designed to push her to the brink of
her endurance. But nothing could have prepared her for the bonds she
would form with the very people she hopes to beat. Or that with each
passing day it would be more and more difficult to ignore the feeling
that the true objective of the mission is being kept from her.
As the days until the launch tick down and the stakes rise higher than
ever before, only one thing is clear to Cassie: she'll never back
down...even if it costs her everything.