That night, Thomas comes to June’s house and tells her that Metias is dead. In his rush to get out, Day leaves behind his special pendant. Day throws a knife into his shoulder and escapes. He is just about to get away when Metias, who has been sent to guard an important delivery, stops him. However, the hospital is out of the cure and he can only steal the weaker suppressants. Metias Iparis is a young captain in the military who has raised June since their parents died in a car accident several years ago.ĭay breaks into Los Angeles Central Hospital to steal plague medicine for his family.

Her brother Metias and his driver, Thomas, take her home. She is suspended for climbing a skyscraper near the campus. June is a fifteen-year-old prodigy who got a perfect score on her Trial, the test children take at age ten that determines what their job will be in the Republic. Meanwhile, June Iparis studies and gets into trouble at Drake University. One day, he finds out that his ten-year-old brother, Eden, has been infected with a new strain of the plague, a disease that is currently wreaking havoc in the Republic.

Day occasionally checks in on his family, who believe he is dead (with the exception of his older brother, John). Day lives with his friend Tess in the poor Lake sector. The most wanted criminal in this society is fifteen-year-old Day, a homeless boy who steals to survive and to help the poor, and undermines the Republic's war effort against the Colonies through vandalism. Far in the future, Los Angeles has been flooded and is ruled by the evil, totalitarian Republic.

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