by Glenn Beck
First published 2024
Ember clutches the leather notebook her parents left behind when Topos took them seven years ago. The sixteen-year-old knows the contraband history could land her in Sleep Camp, but she guards it anyway in a world where the corporation has replaced the United States and destroyed religion, art, and science. When Topos selects her for a task force fighting teenage extremism, she gets a shot at a new life. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Sky flees to a settlement of Holdouts who reject corporate rule. These rebels might reveal whether his entire existence has been built on lies. Both teens carry dangerous secrets as they stumble into a resistance movement plotting to topple Topos. The corporation controls every story people hear, and whoever shapes the stories shapes reality itself. Ember must choose between safety and truth while Sky decides what authentic living means when absolute power writes the rules.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, thriller, young-adult
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: chosen-one, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: United States, Topos
Period: Future
288 pages · Hardcover · Forefront Books