About the Book In the midst of a famine, North America unites to create technology that can modify the human body, making humans be able to learn faster and adapt to the new environment. They develop chips that can be implanted into the human skin, artificial enhancements. However, when technology turns on the people, a war begins. The taken emerge, the ones who have been chipped, the ones who have been corrupted. With only a few dozen survivors remaining, the future doesn't seem so bright. In the midst of the catastrophe, Eliana, a girl who has lost almost everything to the taken, and her five companions set out to save their home, or what’s left of it.