First published 2016
Avery Fuller lives on the thousandth floor of Manhattan's massive tower, genetically engineered to be perfect yet unable to have the one thing she wants most. Far below her, Rylin Myers works the upper floors and finds herself swept into a romance that threatens everything she knows. Leda Cole hides her drug addiction and forbidden attraction behind a flawless facade. Eris Dodd-Radson watches her privileged life crumble when family betrayal destroys everything she believed in. Tech genius Watt Bakradi can access anyone's secrets through his illegal software, but when an upper-floor girl hires him to spy, he becomes trapped in a web of deception. In this glittering vision of 2118 New York, where a single tower stretches into the sky and technology makes anything seem possible, five teenagers discover that human nature remains unchanged. Their desires and secrets intertwine as they struggle to find their place in this vertical world, learning that at such heights, the only direction left is down.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, young-adult, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, secrets
Setting: Manhattan, New York
Period: 2118
437 pages · Hardcover · HarperCollins
Content warnings: drug-use