All I wanted was a family.

So I surrounded myself with the only friends I''ve ever had and joined JROTC so I could feel the love of a family unit.

When we went to a two-week summer camp in the mountains of Kentucky, Carter Rollins, the leader, tempted me with always being desired. If I joined his Army Pride, I''d have the connections I''d dreamed of.

Yet something was mystifying about the boy with eyes like an autumn sky. Maybe it was his rugged exterior or his entrancing demeanor. When a group of rogue campers took my friend Sarah and I, I never imagined how accurate my senses were.

A fictitious legend shifted before my eyes...

To escape, I will have to use every trick I''ve ever learned but getting out may lead me into the path of a deadlier enemy.