The United States of American has fallen. It's now The United Northern Alliance: an alliance between America, Canada, and Mexico. The government has decided that at the age of sixteen you must take a personality profile test to determine if you are a threat to society. If you fail, you will be sent to The Wheel, the harshest prison set up by the government. You have been be forsaken. Orphan Alenna Shawcross goes in to take her personality profile test expecting to pass. The next thing she knows she's waking up on The Wheel frantically trying to figure out what''s going on.
When 16-year old Luke Dorsey's book, Hallelujah, becomes a bestseller, his publisher decides to send him out on a book tour. Sounds good, right? Well, come to find out his chauffeur is going to be his crazy, unpredictable, older brother Matt. When Matt decides to liven up the trip, things start to go downhill. Without Luke knowing, Matt makes a few tweaks to the driving plan, so that they're driving on the legendary Route 66, and he decides to add a few companions: his girlfriend Alex and her sister Fran, who happens to be Luke's ex-crush/crush (he hasn't quite decided) .
In the first book we learned that GODSPEED was run by secrets, but that was only the beginning. In the second book, with Eldest dead and Orion in cryo, Elder assumes leadership, but some people don't think he's ready. As Elder tries to deal with the growing chaos, he learns a secret that could crush everyone's hope. Elder and Amy race to uncover the truth that's been hidden for hundreds of years with the fate of 2,298 passengers on their shoulders and the knowledge that they have to get off this ship.
Ave wakes up not knowing who she is or where she is. As the book continues we follow Ave as she searches for the truth about herself and the world shes in. Soon she starts to remember bits and pieces of her life before, but is this life true or not? Then a boy named Morgan shows up telling her he wants to take her home. So who will Ave believe, what will Ave believe? In As I Wake we will find out. (Maybe)
