ALMOST ALIVE.

Everyone is watching. Only one person is looking.

Wren Calloway has spent eleven years learning to be invisible. Trained by the program to record, report, and never feel, she has a plan for every variable in the room. Her newest assignment: an ordinary high school. Blend in. Observe. Want nothing.

She does not have a plan for Theo Marsh - the quiet boy with paint on his sleeve who looks at people the way she does, like they are worth remembering. He doesn't know what she is. He doesn't know why she's really here. He just sees her. And being seen is the one thing Wren was never trained to survive.

Every feeling she can't log, every rule she bends for him, brings her closer to the limits of the program's patience. Dr. Vale measures everything. Director Rowan Hale forgives nothing. And Wren is about to discover that the building has a plan for a subject who starts to want.

Quiet, sharp, and impossible to put down, Almost Alive is a slow-burn high school romance wrapped inside a surveillance thriller - the story of a girl who was taught to watch everyone, and the boy who teaches her what it costs to be noticed.

• A slow-burn first love that begins with a single rule break


• A literary, present-tense voice that turns an ordinary school day into a mission log


• High emotional stakes, zero filler - an institution that measures feelings vs. a girl deciding to have one

Perfect for readers who devoured The Program and Delirium - and anyone who has wondered where obedience ends and a self begins.

Being almost alive is safe. Feeling might set her free.

Start reading Almost Alive today.