Before The Hunger Games, there was... The Declaration.
When you can live for ever by taking a tablet... When no one needs to die... Anna Covey should never have been born.
Sixteen-year-old Anna lives in a brutal, oppressive Surplus Hall. She obeys all the rules and accepts her own fate - watching her masters achieve eternal life by the power of a pill called Longevity. But then new inmate arrives. Mysterious, enigmatic and dangerous, he turns Anna's solitary world upside down. Is she brave enough to believe that on Surplus girl and a boy who break the rules can change the world for ever?