“Red Dawn fits Escape from NY and The Food cravings Video games” (Booklist) within an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with “prose [that] is beautiful and amazing” and “tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters’ points of view” (VOYA, starred review).

It’s been almost two decades since the Crimson Allies first attacked NY, and Manhattan is currently a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that helps to keep about Town of Savages her through the globe beyond the city’s edges. But for Sky’s more youthful sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of likelihood, and the just house she’d ever desire.

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

Hungry for the truth, the sisters place some events in movement that end in the death of one of Rolladin’s guards. Right now they’re outlaws, compelled to become listed on the strange Englishmen on an escape objective through Manhattan. Their air travel will take them into subways haunted by cannibals, in to the arms of a sadistic cult in the city’s Meatpacking Area and, through the webpages of their mom’s old journal, into the island’s dark and shocking past.