**Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2021 BRONZE MEDAL winner
Wishing Shelf Book Award 2019 BRONZE MEDAL winner
Readers' Favorite FIVE STAR book**
Looking for an award-winning dystopia? Prefer die-for-each-other friendships to romance? Like your YA with a relevant political twist? Battle Ground is a friendship-based found-family survival story with a strong female lead, and book one of a gripping near-future dystopian series.
Sixteen-year-old Bex Ellman has been drafted into an army she doesn't support and a cause she doesn't believe in. Her plan is to keep her head down, and keep herself and her friends safe – until she witnesses an atrocity she can't ignore, and a government conspiracy that threatens lives all over the UK. With her loyalties challenged, Bex must decide who to fight for – and who to leave behind.
*The Battle Ground series is set in a dystopian near-future UK, after Brexit and Scottish independence.*
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*Silence. Darkness. My pulse, loud in my ears.
We're under attack. We need to move. We need to get out. Three floors underground in a nuclear bunker – we're safe while no one knows we’re here, but if they’ve found us, we're trapped. One way in, and one way out.
Voices. Sounds. Hammer blows, slamming through the silence.
I force myself to wake up. Open my eyes, push back the blanket, crawl out of bed.
I need to wake the others.
Boots. Armour. Gun.
Time to be brave. *
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**Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2021 BRONZE MEDAL winner Wishing Shelf Book Award 2019 BRONZE MEDAL winner Readers' Favorite FIVE STAR book** Looking for an award-winning dystopia? Prefer die-for-each-other friendships to romance? Like your YA with a relevant political twist? Battle Ground is a friendship-based found-family survival story with a strong female lead, and book one of a gripping near-future dystopian series. Sixteen-year-old Bex Ellman has been drafted into an army she doesn't support and a cause she doesn't believe in. Her plan is to keep her head down, and keep herself and her friends safe – until she witnesses an atrocity she can't ignore, and a government conspiracy that threatens lives all over the UK. With her loyalties challenged, Bex must decide who to fight for – and who to leave behind. *The Battle Ground series is set in a dystopian near-future UK, after Brexit and Scottish independence.* ….. *Silence. Darkness. My pulse, loud in my ears. We're under attack. We need to move. We need to get out. Three floors underground in a nuclear bunker – we're safe while no one knows we’re here, but if they’ve found us, we're trapped. One way in, and one way out. Voices. Sounds. Hammer blows, slamming through the silence. I force myself to wake up. Open my eyes, push back the blanket, crawl out of bed. I need to wake the others. Boots. Armour. Gun. Time to be brave. *