"...riveting and frighteningly plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews

“…supremely intense and fantastically imaginative…” — Readers’ Favorite

"...conveys sensations that most stories rush past." - Literary Titan



Welcome to the United States of 2096.

Freedom is a dream you fight for on television. Dissent earns you a trip to an internment camp, a reprogramming ward, or a disappearance so quiet your family forgets you walked the earth. And the boot on your throat has a flag stitched into the leather.

They made it legal to hunt minority citizens on weekends. They turned healthcare into a game show. They spliced the human genome until it wept strange, shunned tribes onto the frayed edges of the republic.

Noah Harpster doesn’t care about any of it. Three-time loser and petty thief—he’s spent his whole life perfecting the art of not mattering; staying small, quite, and head down. Then he meets Parlisse.

She’s a beautiful, biracial climatologist and painter, navigating a nation that has sharpened old cruelties into policy. She may also be involved in a resistance network; while her twin sister definitely works for the very machinery oppressing them all.

And now someone has put a target on Noah’s back—and he doesn’t even know why....

In a world that rewards silence with survival, Noah Harpster is about to become very, very loud.