Author: Sullivan, Ariel

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 16 October 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Tor Bramble) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 416 pages
241 x 164 x 37 | 688g

'Compulsively readable and vividly written—it kept me awake long past my bedtime! Ariel Sullivan is a writer to watch'– Sarah J. Maas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Court of Thorns and RosesOne man could offer her the world. The other will help her destroy it . . .

Born to an Elite family, Emeline has been marked as different from birth and by a society that judges all its citizens on their ability to conform.

Emeline only has one role open to her: to become a mother. Offered a pro-creation contract with Collin, a member of the Illum ­­– the governing body of the Elite ­– Emeline finds herself increasingly torn between her growing complicated feelings for her proposed mate, and another man who lives on the margins of their society who challenges her ideals.

When the marginalized rise up in rebellion, Emeline begins to question everything she has ever believed in.

It’s time to choose a side . . .

'A love triangle that will have you picking sides . . . then changing sides . . . then changing sides again. I read it in one sitting' - Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent