<p> Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. </p> <p> He was wrong. </p> <p> Now he?s trapped in a school that?s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive. </p> <p> Where breaking the rules equals death. </p> <p> But when Benson stumbles upon the school?s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape?his only real hope for survival?may be impossible. </p>