The Cityborn

The metal City towers at the center of the mountain-ringed Heartland like a malevolent giant. Within its corroding walls lies a stratified society, where the Officers dwell in luxury on the Twelfth Tier while the poor struggle to survive on the First and Second, and outcasts scrabble and fight for whatever they can find in the City's rubbish heap. Alania, ward of an Officer, feels like a pampered prisoner; Danyl, raised by a scavenger, knows no home but the Middens. Then Alania flees from an ambush, plunging to the Middens and into Danyl's life. The secrets they unlock will determine not only their fate, but the fate of everyone who lives in the City.