Dead City

Alone and cut off, teens straight from Behavioural Isolation Facilities (a chain of institutions for the highly volatile and disturbed youth) are thrown together in a ruined city with no adults, no mercy, and no clear rules, surrounded by others just as brilliant and just as dangerous as they are. Alliances form. Power shifts. Morality erodes. Every choice becomes a test of who they’re willing to be when the world is already halfway dead. Theo Romero, an awkward, introverted boy, wakes up in a locked mental room. No help. No answers. No memory of how he got there. At the BIF, he’d survived by keeping his head down — quiet, compliant, invisible enough to be forgotten. There with him is Darcy Chandler: beautiful, untouchably popular, notoriously wild. Temptation with teeth. His polar opposite. But none of that matters when survival becomes the only currency left, and the Dead City doesn’t care who you were before. It only cares about how far you’ll go.