Seven hours before she is deployed to the warfront, sixteen-year old
Jade kills an Antarctican.
The war between Antarctica and the United Provinces has reigned for six
long years, and has been a constant in Jade's idealistic, patriotic
world. She has passed the arduous Military Trials with an honourable
rank, but the twisted secrets she's learnt and kept lead to murder. The
plan is simple: serve for three years, return or die for the country. No
greater honour.
But Jade is now in a brutal Antarctican prisoner-of-war camp and the
Antarcticans have conquered her home country. Every day in the camp only
seems to prove their defeat.
The rumours of the resistance, the Last Army are fragmented, but the
deep-set soldier in Jade is determined and hopeful. Together with
Calder, a comrade, she hatches a desperate plan for escape, which
involves stealing potential vaccines and breaking into Antarctican
prison, and certainly not survival.
After all, there is no greater honour, than to die for the country.