The Boy Who Wasn't And The Girl Who Couldn't Be

Jerome has everything he needs to survive. He just isn’t allowed to live.

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Alone in a sealed, technology-controlled apartment, Jerome has spent his entire life believing the world outside is deadly. Acid rain falls from poisoned skies. Monstrous insects roam the ruins. Stepping outside means death.

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Then Wren climbs into his world.

 

She comes from a thriving settlement beyond the abandoned buildings — a world of forests and rivers, books and families, danger and freedom. And she has been taught something equally terrifying. Jerome’s world is the one that will kill her.

 

As their impossible friendship deepens, Wren introduces Jerome to everything his artificial existence has denied him: touch, choice, freedom—and the exhilarating uncertainty of being truly alive.

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But Jerome isn’t the only one trapped inside a comfortable prison built on lies. He has five similarly confined friends. If he can uncover the truth, perhaps he can set them free.

But first, he must do the one thing he has feared his entire life.

 

Open the door.