Wow! Shades ofFahrenheit 451and Orwells1984.Painfully real and urgent. Read this book.Michael Grant,New York Timesbestselling author of the Gone series

Bestselling author Joelle Charbonneaus eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations at this particular moment in our history.

Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides.

But when Meris mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mothers state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didnt know existed.

Suddenly, Meri is faced with a choice between accepting the truth or embracing a world the government doesnt want anyone to seea world where words have the power to change the course of a country and where the wrong ones can get Meri killed.