It\'s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating.
Danger, romance--and sheer terror--await..
Armed with his dire warnings (``Cia, trust no one``), she bravely heads off to Tosu City, far away from friends and family, perhaps forever.
When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing.
All Cia can think about--hope for--is whether she\'ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization.
It\'s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating
