2016 Christy Award Winner! (Young Adult category)
2016 Christy Award Finalist (First novel category)
Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment shed spent a lifetime preparing for--her Choosing ceremony--to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, shell spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows its her duty to follow the true way of the Authority.

But as Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs. Though the whispers contradict everything shes been told, they resonate deep within.

Then Carrington is offered an unprecedented chance at the life shes always dreamed of, yet she cant shake the feeling that it may be an illusion. With a killer targeting Lints and corruption threatening the highest levels of the Authority, Carrington must uncover the truth before it destroys her.