First published 2026
Ari Waker walks through bomb-sniffing dogs and Red Cross tents to reach a party in post-collapse Los Angeles. The year is 2031, peacekeeping troops have withdrawn, and the curfew has lifted for the first time since America splintered apart. Inside the apartment, people celebrate with desperate joy. A woman dances in a silver dress that gleams like tinfoil. Then something shifts. A confused twin or double stumbles through the crowd and disappears into the night. Kareem, who hosts the party, vanishes completely. Ari must solve what happened during this impossible evening. Her search takes her from the fractured remains of America to Greek cliffs where arms dealers operate from luxury resorts, from the enclosed city of Paris to a lunar colony. She discovers a world of surveillance states and shadow realities where safety comes at a terrible cost. This is a story about survival when everything familiar crumbles away.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, adventure, action, 21st-century, alternate-history
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Los Angeles, Paris, Greek Cliffs, Lunar Colony
Period: 2031
320 pages · Hardcover · Knopf
Content warnings: violence