THE TESTING

It's graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about-hope for-is whether she'll be chosen for The Testing a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. When Cia is chosen her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing. Armed with his dire warnings (Cia trust no one) she bravely heads off to Tosu City far away from friends and family perhaps forever ...