The Here and Now

Ann Brashares
This is the story of 17 year old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was 12. Except Prenna didn't come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.

Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they're from, never interfere with history, never ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she's told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth.

But everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves.

Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, "the here and now" is a twenty first century take on an impossible romance. A girl from the future might be able to save us... If she lets go of the one thing she's found to hold on to.