Champion

Champion is the third and final book in Marie Lu's Legend trilogy, set in a divided, militarized future North America. June and Day have both given up a great deal for the Republic, and for each other. Now the country stands at the edge of real change, and the two are about to be pulled back together.

June has regained the Republic's trust and holds a place among its political elite as Princeps-Elect. Day, once the nation's most wanted outlaw, has been given a senior military post. Each has settled into a new role, but neither expected what would bring them face to face again.

With a peace treaty close to being signed, a new and far deadlier strain of plague breaks out in the Colonies. Panic spreads, and the Republic's border cities are threatened by war. June alone holds the knowledge that could protect her country, but using it could cost the person she loves everything he has.

The novel closes the trilogy by asking what June and Day owe to their nation, and what they owe to each other, when thousands of lives hang on the answer.