A very exciting book, with unexpected twists. Eli and Malik and 28 other children live in a small town called Serenity. Everything in Serenity is perfect, there are no poor people, no homelessness, or unemployment. Everyone is honest, and good, not like the outside world. Or so it seems, first Randy, then Eli, discover that the adults are lying to them, nothing is what it seems, and the children are really prisoners in the town. I am already waiting for the next book in the series...