To deny freedom is to deny the human spirit. Fugitive Resistance fighter Tommy Bailey has come out of hiding to help rescue Careen Catecher from the clutches of the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense, where she's being held and interrogated for information about the rebel group. The OCSD is poised to launch the Cerberean Link, a security device that will put all minors under constant surveillance under the guise of protecting them. Convinced that activating the Link will result in irreversible and total control of the population, the Resistance puts its own plan in motion to sabotage the Link and oust the OCSD's wolfish director. Just when everything seems leveraged in their favor, treachery, lies, and long-held secrets threaten to derail it all.

Is it too much to want a fresh start?Though Careen Catecher survived a terrorist attack when she was nine, her childhood ended on that awful day. Now, nine years later, she's ready for her life to truly begin.A full scholarship to a prestigious university far from her beleaguered home quadrant seems like a dream come true, but when she arrives on campus, she's perceived as a charity case, despite grades and test scores that prove she's the academic equal of the best students there.Careen knows she's tough enough to survive just about anything, and fitting in with her acquisitive peers—at least on the surface—is necessary if she's going to leave the past behind and claim the stable future she craves.But her past won't stay buried. She's only been at school for a few weeks when a cryptic message from an unlikely friend raises questions that may put her in danger all over again.Check out this novella-length prequel to the award-winning Resistance Series, "a promising new YA series...

A spark can ignite a revolution. Tommy and Careen have been vilified in the media for the Resistance's failed attempt to take down the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense. Both teens struggle to survive the circumstances that thrust them into the national spotlight, and this time, they don't have each other to lean on. They're on opposite sides. Even though both the OCSD and the Resistance believe Careen's convincing defection, Tommy refuses to believe her loyalties have shifted. How can she be in favor of the OCSD's latest plan to monitor all minors with the Cerberean Link, a device that will track their every move?