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“Compelling” – SFX Magazine

From award-winning screenwriter of The Hunger Games movies Billy Ray comes an immersive and breathtaking enemies-to-lovers epic romance about war, loyalty and the power that love has to save … or destroy.
The year is 2425 and London is underwater.
Three hundred years ago, rising oceans drowned a vast majority of the English Isle. London is now a jungle of dead skyscrapers and submerged streets. Fighting over the scraps of a world none can remember, two Houses – the Crowns and the Rogues – have been at war for three centuries.
Rafe is the Rogue army’s fiercest captain. Jule is the Crown army’s deadliest soldier. They are vicious and merciless, courageous and beloved by their Houses. They are sworn enemies.
And then they fall in love.
It’s a death sentence. But their love is all-consuming. As Rafe and Jule try to keep each other alive in their war-torn world, they are forced to confront new, horrifying threats. When mysterious foreigners appear on their shores, the warring factions may destroy each other, unless their two most ruthless soldiers can show their people a different way and save them all.

• A thrilling, war-torn, enemies-to-lovers romance set in future London


• This is YA dystopian Romeo & Juliet as two rival soldiers risk everything they’ve ever known to fall in love


• Perfect for fans of Shatter Me, the Delirium triology and Lightlark.