Author: mariaingrandemora

Sixteen-year-old Nate is a GEM–a Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue–created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population.As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers–a quarantined, lawless region. He manages to survive by becoming a Tinkerer, fixing broken tech in exchange for food … food or a safe place to sleep. When he meets Reed, a kind and fiercely protective boy who makes his heart race, and his misfit gang of scavengers, Nate finds the family he’s always longed for–even if…