After Helen's best friend, Milena, runs away from their prison-like boarding school, Helen learns that she and her schoolmates aren't ordinary orphans. Their parents died fighting against the Phalange, the fascist organization that seized power roughly a dozen years ago. When the Phalange unleashes "the Devils"-dog-men trained to kill runaways-Helen escapes to find Milena.
Summary Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.
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