Intractable
Sixteen-year-old Mackenzie is heading off to Collation, society's training program to prepare teens for the real world before assigning them to a province. When leaders of one province, Inimical, take every teen at Collation hostage and train them for war, Mackenzie must fight to survive and make it home to Coterie. After meeting one Inimical native, Nick, Mackenzie realizes she must keep her friends close and her enemy closer. Nick has made it his mission to take Mackenzie out on his own, until the teens are given an experimental obedience serum that works on everyone but the feuding pair. The two must work together to save their friends and themselves before it's too late.…