The All-Manhattan Rejects

"What's this one?" the toddler asked. "Ooh! Close door!"
Experimentally, she pressed it.
The elevator doors closed.
She looked up as a sickening thud locked her out from the rest of the world.

Thirteen-ish years later, Evelyn Grace hasn't been found by most of the world. She's hiding with the loners and the runaways at the Manhattan Mall. It's a rather simple lifestyle: Steal. Hide. Survive.
But it all changes when Raven Kay escapes into their midst. Afraid of anything and broken beyond repair, she's nothing like the outcasts have ever hosted before.