Emily J Yates

At a time when her college peers are debating what to major in, going to parties, and working jobs they can quit without threat of prosecution, Rosa del Duca is a secret traitor. She is a conscientious objector stuck in a National Guard uniform during the War on Terror. When the call comes to ship out, she faces the biggest quandary of her life: Abandon some of the most caring and brave Americans she’s ever met, or follow her moral compass, no matter the consequences.

When your mother names you after your father's affair, you might wish you were living someone else's life. For Samantha Hart, growing up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania had been no childhood idyll but rather a violent, surreal nightmare. A twisted vision of pastoral life part Faulkner part Dante. At 14 years old, she ran away in search of her father, a character she only knew as Wild Bill. Discovering he wasn't the hero she dreamt he'd be, she was on her own.