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Two halves of a country are at cold war. A twelve-year-old goes missing.
Ryder Markham's world moves too fast, leaving him in the dust. He is the illusion of cyborgs and skyscrapers and photoshoots, shrouding the painful secrets of a lifetime of loneliness and a decades-long power struggle.
Griffin Hawthorne fears that she will never amount to anything more than an unsuccessful seamstress. Tied down by a society plagued with restrictions and a family burden too heavy to bear, she longs for a world of underground clubs and mystery, where anyone can throw the punches.
United by a mission to find a missing boy, their meeting defies borders, offering them the chance to discover shockingly different worlds beyond their own.
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