The Divided States of America

They called her Rabbit because she always backed down.

Bex Eiffle was born into the UES, the Upper East Side towers where the wealthy rule what's left of the country. There is no more America. Only US.

So when her so-called friends use their family connections to get her inside Marathon as a 21st birthday stunt, she lifts her chin and says, "Why not?"

The fix is in.

Marathon is the only federal penitentiary — the Court of Public Opinion is the only court. The condemned enter the prison system as contestants, dancing, fighting, surviving for the cameras while millions of viewers vote on who deserves to live.

Eight hours. That's all Bex agrees to.

But the audience has other ideas.

Partnered with Jay St. Julian, a Harvard professor who fell from grace harder than anyone knows, Bex fights to win her freedom one round at a time, while the cameras roll and the votes keep coming. What she doesn't know is that survival is the easy part.

The truth waiting for her on the other side is what will burn the world down.

Marathon is the explosive first book in The Divided States of America trilogy. For listeners who devoured The Hunger Games, Red Rising, and The Running Man.