Cal and Dad were supposed to be home by now.

Weeks later, they're still missing, and Lily is running out of reasons to tell Mom that everything will be okay. If she wants to keep her family together, she'll have to find a way to survive without them—and prove that there's still hope for a future.

The Sifting could change everything. But getting through it will force Lily to face choices she never imagined making. When survival comes at a cost, how much is she willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves?

Far from home, Cal is running out of options of his own. After weeks alone in the wilderness, he's forced to accept help from people he wasn't supposed to trust. But staying alive means more than surviving the dangers around him. Cal will have to decide what he's willing to become, and whether finding his way back to Lily is still possible.

Separated by miles and circumstances neither of them could have imagined, Lily and Cal are fighting their way toward the same thing: a future.

But in a world where survival changes everything, getting there might cost them more than they're prepared to lose.

The fight for survival continues in Sifted, the next chapter of the Starved series