In dystopian Manhattan, society is divided into six zones, with each one representing a citizen's benefit to society: Stalwart (strength), Astute (intelligence), Collusive (greed), Radiant (beauty), Quixotic (no life direction), and the Altruistic (willingness to help others). On a citizen's sixteenth birthday, a computer suggests a new zone for them based on their inherent benefit to society. When Kalenna Slater is sorted out of her home zone Quixotic and into Altruistic, she thinks things can't get worse. Life looks dismal until she meets Gavin, a boy also just sorted into Altruistic who...

As Kalenna and her friends get settled into HQ and finish their first month, the realize that time is of the essence if they are to make any sort of change. With the audacious suggestion of an escape, she wonders if they could get out of HQ, alive, and escape into the forest to find an elusive man who may hold all of the answers they need. Will they get captured before they can leave, or will they find this man and find out more about Project Gemini and the whereabouts of her father?

The third and final book of the Banded series As they watch the city from afar, Kalenna and her friends must find their way back into the city that has hurt and challenged them so many times in the past. With Benson found and more secrets unlocked, they are closer than ever to finding out the secrets of the city and ending the band program once and for all.

Oliver Hurst has always been abnormally normal. His grades are horrible, his best friend just left for Utah, and he's depressed. His overly religious parents don't help, especially since they control every facet of his life. One stupid sentence said in desperation gets Oliver tossed in an adolescent psych ward, where his depression and fears become even more of a reality. When Oliver meets snide, tough girl Lacey Waters he doesn't think his life could get any better, that is, until she becomes the ray of sunshine he has desperately needed on his cloudiest of days.

When your girlfriend is a ghost visiting you in your dreams, life is anything but ordinary. Seventeen-year-old Theodore Quinn has never had it easy. His dad recently left his mother and him, he's not exactly Mr. Popular at school, and he's never had a girlfriend-that is, until a chance encounter leads to a reconciliation with his childhood best friend and neighbor, Annabelle, whom he's loved for as long as he can remember. It's only after they start dating that his life seems to be heading in the right direction. But that all changes one snowy night when Annabelle is instantly killed in a car...