Sawyer Rowe
Blending the gritty bio-punk speculation of Black Mirror with the high-stakes survivalism of The Last of Us and the rebellion-fueled tension of The Hunger Games, FOREIGN BODIES is a high-octane dystopian thriller debut about grief, love, and staying human despite it all.THEY SAY THE CITY IS SAFE. THEY SAY THE WORLD IS DEAD.Five years after banished androids killed her father, eighteen-year-old Lark Elliot knows better: beyond the fences, where the birds call in warning, the Wilds are dangerous-and alive.But scavenging means survival, so she counts to keep the panic at bay and drinks to dull her father’s words.Then a battered stranger appears at the boundary. He is not dead. He should be. His wounds heal impossibly fast, and when he wakes, he remembers nothing.All he has is a word branded into his skin:NEROWhen Lark’s uncle vanishes, her refusal to lose the last of her family means trusting Nero-and questioning everything she knows to be true. Because people are disappearing. They won’t return the same.In the City of Cobalt, surviving might be worse than death. AND SOMETIMES, THE ENEMY LOOKS LIKE FAMILYPerfect for readers of crossover dystopian and science fiction, Foreign Bodies is not to be missed by fans of Veronica Roth, Pierce Brown, and Marie Lu.
