by Amy Ewing
Part of The Lone City, book 1.25
First published 2016
Garnet has lived his entire life as the pampered son of the Duchess of the Lake. He spends his days indulging in pleasures while his mother rules over their domain in the Lone City. Garnet never questioned the world around him or wondered about the servants who waited on his family. Then something shifts. He begins to see the cruelty his mother inflicts on Violet and others like her. The comfortable bubble of his privileged existence starts to crack. Garnet watches his family participate in a system that destroys lives. The ruling class he belongs to treats people as property. For the first time, Garnet feels the weight of what his silence has enabled. He must decide whether to remain complicit in his family's crimes or risk everything to fight back. This digital companion to the Lone City trilogy reveals how one spoiled young man confronts the moral reckoning that will define him.
Genres: fiction, dystopia, fantasy, social-issues
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: moral-dilemma, social-commentary
Setting: Lone City
Period: contemporary
83 pages · Kindle Edition · HarperTeen
Content warnings: abuse