Order is the supreme value. Merit camouflages oppression. All people are not created equal.

Daniela can run. She's a track star and a survivor, a girl who knows her way around plague-ravaged Bronx City. She never dreamed of getting the chance to leave, to attend school with the elite and compete against the world's best. There is no place for someone like her among the genetically engineered elite of Manhattan. Yet they want her. But Daniela isn't ready for the greed and deceit hidden beneath the...