Free to Fall

Free to Fall

Lauren Miller

Language: English

Pages: 496

ISBN: 0062199811

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes drama set in the near-future.  Imaginative and thrilling, this "intricately plotted, intellectually rich thriller...will please a range of readers, from those searching for a page-turner to those wishing to thoroughly engage the mind." (Publishers' Weekly, starred review)

Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision-making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is to follow what the app recommends. When she's accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn't use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going her own way, questioning Lux and listening instead to the inner voice she's been taught to ignore--a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

told myself, forcing myself to go back to sleep. It wasn’t even light yet when I woke up again, jolted awake by the screaming chorus of a This Is August Jones song. Hershey’s alarm. She fumbled for her Gemini, knocking it off the nightstand in the process. “Sorry,” she mumbled, then pulled her pillow over her head and promptly fell back asleep. Her alarm was still going off. Any relief I felt about the fact that she wasn’t dead in the woods somewhere was overshadowed by the immense irritation of

and Earl Grey tea. “Cool hoodie.” “I’m on my way to dinner,” I blurted out. My eyelids were firing like a camera shutter, blink blink blink blink blink. The scent, his nearness, these things had come out of nowhere. It was taking me a second to recover. I put my hands in my pockets and tried to look blasé. “Thaiphoon.” I pointed at the sign ahead, as if he might not believe me. “I should probably—” Go was the word that came next, but it got caught in my throat somewhere as our eyes met. There it

so the doctors had to do a C-section, and I guess a vein in her leg got blocked, and the clot went to her lungs. “Pulmonary thromboembolism” was the phrase on her death certificate, which I found in a box in my dad’s closet when I was nine, on Christmas Eve. I’d been looking for hidden presents. I stared at the box, and then at him. “What do you mean it’s from Mom?” “She asked me to give it to you.” He tugged at his beard, clearly uncomfortable. “When did she ask you to give it to me?” I meant

Hildebrand say, “as well as our cosponsors, Gnosis, Inc. and Soza Labs, who co-own the patents on the nanobots and the SynOx compound.” My eyes flew open. “Soza,” I repeated. “Why do I know that name?” “Probably because their logo is in every drugstore window,” North replied. “They’re the ones that manufacture the flu vaccine.” As soon as he said the word flu vaccine, something fluttered in my chest. A rush of sensation, like rock turning to sand. The day Beck had been picked for the Gold

been at this for centuries. Hyperion is just their endgame.” North rubbed at his eyes. “This is seriously messed up, Rory. And your mom was one of these people?” I shook my head. “I thought she was, but Liam checked their roster and her name’s not on it.” “So she was trying to expose them.” I nodded. “That’s the only thing that makes sense. Those files on the necklace were her evidence. But someone found out what she was doing and she got scared. I think that’s why she left Theden.” “But why

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