�Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games� (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with �prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant� and �tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters� points of view� (VOYA, starred review).

It�s been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city�s borders. But for Sky�s younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility, and the only home she�d ever want.

When Sky and Phee discover their mom�s hidden journal from the war�s outbreak, they both realize there�s more to Manhattan�and their mother�than either of them had ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the island�s long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladin�s lies about Manhattan�s captivity begin to unravel.

Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin�s guards. Now they�re outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city�s Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their mom�s old journal, into the island�s dark and shocking past.