The Force

Even after a war is over, there is no peace... Liz lives with her family in what is known as the East Corridor, the nothingness in between what is left of old New Jersey and New York following World War III. Isolated and living in fear of other Corridors still fighting each other as well as a vigilante group known as The Force that steals children to turn them into soildiers against the people and government, her family has learned to survive and stay close together. But when The Force takes Liz and her twin borther, Eli, everything changes. Everything they thought they knew is now out the window as they must learn to survive and thrive as soldiers for The Force, an entity that was not at all formed for the purposes the government, a group known simply as The Elected, would have them believe. Together, with old friends and new, they must learn to be stronger than they ever imagined while they trudge through the thick layer of lies that have been fed to them all their lives...and might still be being fed to them. Will they survive and find a new start, or will they get lost in the turmoil of a country they only thought they knew? This is the first book in a young adult post-apocolyptic series comparable to Divergent and The Hunger Games.