Dehors, le territoire est un désert aride. La canicule enveloppe le pays. Une épidémie se répand dans la population : la grure. Cette maladie efface la mémoire. Elle ravage tout, sauf le corps qui maintient ses capacités physiques.

Québec, 2048. Tous les soirs, des milliards de moustiques assoiffés de sang envahissent le ciel, tuant les habitants qui s'aventurent à l'extérieur. À cette menace s'ajoute celle d'un gouvernement qui veut contrôler la population. Des drones armés survole le territoire pendant le jour et un ordinateur surpuissant analyse en permanence tout sur tous. Pourtant, lorsqu'un meurtre survient, la police est incapable de démasquer le coupable. Hugo et Lolla décident alors de mener leur enquête. Aidés d'Arto, quatorze ans, ils traquent l'assassin, jusqu'à ne plus savoir qui est le chasseur et qui est le gibier...

The end is coming. What would you do? The first in a fast-paced and gripping YA dystopian series for anyone who's ever felt like their life--their world--is on the brink of destruction. Like most high school seniors, Alexandra Lucas is caught between living in the moment and an unknown future. Her anxiety disorder doesn't make that any easier. But she's coping--until her train stops on the way home from a concert with her boyfriend. At first, she's worried about breaking curfew. Then terror echoes through their train car. A mysterious doorway has appeared beside the tracks, and a hologram claiming to be a human from the future shares a sinister warning. A comet is on a collision course with earth. All life there will end in six months' time. To survive, people must step through one of the many portals that have opened around the world. The holograms claim to offer safety. But how can anyone be sure? Stay or go--everyone must make their own choice. Alex's family, her friends, her boyfriend all have different ideas. Alex is only sure of one thing: she wants to decide for herself. But every decision comes at a price. Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Award Winner of the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award

Senior year would have been stressful enough without an apocalypse. When the holograms arrived, allegedly offering safe passage to those who stepped through their vertexes, Alexandra Lucas thought going or staying would be the hardest decision of her life. She was wrong. Because she is the one person who knows the truth, a truth that will change everything: the holograms lied. Alex can't deny this new world is mesmerizing. Holo technology lets her customize everything from her clothes to her surroundings. But she can't let it distract her from searching for her boyfriend, best friend, and brother. They need to know what happened. Because there's a rebellion brewing, and every utopia has a breaking point. What price must they all pay to survive?

Rose is grateful to live in an enclosed biosphere behind an imposing wall, protected from the brutal chaos of the outside world. In her village, everyone is born knowing their place, their career, and their spouse. There is no stress because there are no choices. Gryphon is assigned to be her husband. He is quick, he is beautiful, and he wishes every day he wasn’t bound to her. But Rose will accept their marriage because she never causes trouble. Until a body harvest is called the same day as her wedding, and despite the decree that should have protected her family, her beloved little brother is chosen. Watching his terrified face as he’s dragged away, Rose makes a decision that will set her on a harrowing journey, one that forces her to choose between escape and annihilation as she uncovers the dark secret that has kept them behind the wall for centuries.