Foreign Bodies

THEY SAY THE CITY IS SAFE. THEY SAY THE WORLD IS DEAD.

Five years after banished androids killed her father, eighteen-year-old Lark Elliot knows better: beyond the fences, where the birds call in warning, the Wilds are dangerous—and alive.

But scavenging means survival, so she counts to keep the panic at bay. Drinks to dull her father’s words. Then a battered stranger appears at the boundary.

He is not dead. He should be. His wounds heal impossibly fast, and when he wakes, he remembers nothing. All he has is a word branded into his skin:

NERO

When Lark’s uncle vanishes, her refusal to lose the last of her family means trusting Nero—and questioning everything she knows to be true. Because people are disappearing. They won’t return the same. 

In the City of Cobalt, surviving might be worse than death.

AND SOMETIMES, THE ENEMY LOOKS LIKE FAMILY