Atopia

The mere fact that a social experiment hasn’t failed yet does not mean it is right.
Two completely unrelated lives collide in this 93,000-word dystopian, coming-of-age, speculative fiction.
The first is Stirling, an inquisitive, twenty-four Season boy (the equivalent of twelve years old) who’s lived his entire life under the perpetual aurora shielding his community from whatever destroyed the world outside.
The other, a conspiracy realist named Brody Burns on a hunt for the truth.
Their shared refrain: “There must be places out there that we’re not being told about.”
In a twist of fate, the reality that both Stirling and Brody thought they understood unfolds into the biggest conspiracy either of them had ever imagined. Through their own means, they each discover a world they were never supposed to find was right under their noses the whole time, shrouded in secrets, lies, and cover-ups.