Chapter 1

When the world is but one continent and two countries, a full-blown war threatens the existence of everyone and the world that they know. Chastin Malstone is put to the ultimate test after her life of farming and family dissipates to a military regime, and she's thrown out in front to help lead it. But what surprises her most is the friendship she finds in the sensitive boy down the road, Luke Kelver. Will they grow together through the course of the war? Or will it slowly tear them and who they are as individuals apart...