"Get your ass up! I'm tired of telling you!" Fifteen-year-old Manny Mari knows the drill: wake up before Mom's tech-hand yanks him out of bed, wrangle his demonic twin siblings (Keoni and Keuri) before they burn down the apartment, and survive another day in Reform City-where the air is poison, the rich breathe clean, and the only sport left is war. But today feels different. Maybe it's the way the roots under their floor pulse when Mom whispers to the old gods. Maybe it's the twins' newest stunt-brainwashing a Spire loyalist during devotionals. Or maybe it's Brooke, the girl downstairs, who leaves Manny speechless with her hazel eyes and lethal wit-even as her Spire-issued tech slowly eats her alive. When a government transport rumbles past, its enhanced soldiers staring at the untouched Amari kids like lab specimens, Manny realizes: Their time hiding is over.