If you pass the test you go to the Institute. If you're lucky your picture will come back, but you never will. Fourteen-year-old Kara Mason used to live at a fusion energy generator station on the outskirts of a major city. She used to travel with her brothers every week to attend classes inside the safety of the city, surrounded by force fields meant to keep everything else out. Until she and her twin brother Hank pass the test and are summoned to attend the prestigious but mysterious Institute.Kara doesn't understand why they weren't meant to pass the tests, or why it means they have to run. All she knows is that she's terrified of the monsters on the other side of the force field. Face to face with the near-dead... To put an end to the people who took everything from them, Kara and the man who was supposed to usher her family to safety must go under cover to uncover the government's biggest weapon and darkest secrets. She'll have to face more than monsters to get the answers she needs. Due North is Book One of the Kara Mason Story, a dystopian thriller set in a Sci Fi futuristic world rebuilt from the ruin of the Zoribiatus virus.