Here it really is! The greatly expected follow-up to Gratz’s NYT bestselling, critically acclaimed phenomenon REFUGEE. That is another searing and heart-pounding take a look at kids making their way through war.

It’s 1944 and the world reaches battle. Hideki lives peacefully with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. Until the day WWII gets to their door.

Hideki is drafted in to the “Bloodstream and Iron Imperial Corps” to combat for the Japanese army. He is handed two grenades and a set of instructions: about Grenade set off in to the jungle, and don’t come back until you’ve wiped out an American soldier.

Meanwhile, young American soldier Ray Majors offers just landed for the beach in Okinawa. He doesn’t know what to expect, or if he’ll make it out alive, but he knows he must keep moving forward.

From opposite sides from the war, Hideki and Ray each combat their way through horrors and dangers. But when the two of them encounter each other in the center of the fight, the choices they make in that one moment changes everything.

Through the NYT bestselling author of Refugee, a searing, action-packed look at how our courage and our conscience can redeem us in the darkest of times.