Decades of war, famine, and environmental destruction have pushed the world to the brink to collapse. The only country that still thrives is Svealand, where people live in harmony and the nature has been restored. But only because the boarders are closed, democracy is gone and the people are under constant surveillance.

Society is divided into white-, yellow-, orange-, and red-ringed. To climb the ranks, you have to be the perfect citizen. Ran is an 18 year old girl living in Stockholm. She’s just been marked red-ringed after her father committed an unforgivable crime. Now all she can think about is to win back her family’s status, rise to orange-ringed, and get her old life back.

But when her brother Loge is suddenly taken as punishment for their father’s crime, Ran’s world falls apart. She soon begins to realize that the world as she knows it, is built on lies, and that she may be the only one who can uncover the truth. Alone, hunted, and desperate, Ran sets out across Svealand to save her brother and the freedom of her people – before it’s too late.

Ran is the first installment in a three-part series – a gripping dystopian adventure and a story of hope in a world with no easy answers.