The Pledge

In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The smallest transgression, like looking a member of a higher class in the eye while they are speaking in their native tongue, results in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina (Nick named Charlie) has always been able to understand the languages of all classes, and she's spent her life trying to hide her only place where she can really be free is the drug-fueled underground clubs, where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in, it's there that she meets a beautiful boy named Max, who speaks a language she's never heard before . . . and her secret is almost exposed.

Charlie is intensely attracted to Max, even though she can't be sure where his real loyalties lie. As the emergency drills become real emergencies and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger; her country's only change of freedom from the terrible power of a deadly regime.