Ember Miller

Ember Miller is a 17-year-old girl who lives with her mother in Louisville, Kentucky. In recent years, her personality has been shaped by a war that has left the United States devastated and being run by an extremely conservative government controlled by the military. Ember now does everything in her power to simply blend in, ranging from choosing her seat in the classroom to the way she walks down the street. In many ways, she is the opposite of her mother, a free spirit to is often careless about obeying the country's strict laws about morality.

However, her efforts to blend in are of no help when her mother is arrested and she is sent to a rehabilitation facility. Rather than conforming, Ember begins to exhibit some of her mother's characteristics in her determination to escape at any cost and find her mother.

The other factor that...