Blurb
Is it better to live a lie happily or know the truth and be miserable?
In a future where suspects can be convicted for crimes committed in dreams and drugs are used to alter bad memories, the Earth is split into two societies that are unaware of each other, one on the surface and the other beneath. Terris, the daughter of an impounded revolutionist and a murdered mother, discovers a hidden elevator to the surface. Determined to find her father, Terris ends up in an uneasy alliance with clever, not-quite personable, Prince Quinn and his slightly strange friend Jack. In the space of a few weeks, it becomes obvious not all is well in the seeming paradise of the surface. Terrorists work needless acts of violence across the globe, and the king is doing nothing about it. It almost seems he is encouraging them.
Terris Noble and Quinn Alabaster’s stories intertwine as they struggle to define ‘family’ and face their fears. Terris who would do anything to pick up the broken bits of her family and carry them about in some semblance of being alright again. Quinn, on the other hand, is from a cold, royal family that is slowly rotting with the weight of its many secrets.