Lacy DeMark is a first-grade Riverton teacher in the year 2032. The schools have become the nation's battlegrounds, and teachers are now trained in defensive disablement. They wear body armor to school and are trained as well and maybe even better than the nation's military. Though students have become increasingly difficult to control, to Lacy, the biggest problem at the moment is a six-year-old terror named Colter Stecks. In her efforts to get him the help he needs to control his violent outbursts, she finds herself chased, shot at, and the only barrier between Colter and his angry...

Lacy DeMark is a first-grade Riverton teacher in the year 2032. The schools have become the nation's battlegrounds, and teachers are now trained in defensive disablement. They wear body armor to school and are trained as well and maybe even better than the nation's military. Though students have become increasingly difficult to control, to Lacy, the biggest problem at the moment is a six-year-old terror named Colter Stecks. In her efforts to get him the help he needs to control his violent outbursts, she finds herself chased, shot at, and the only barrier between Colter and his angry...