Outside the Lines

Amara Rodriguez is a New Blood artist living in a society reshaped by a single scientific breakthrough. The Asenescence corporation created a treatment that stops aging, and the population split into two groups. Old Bloods who take the Remedy enjoy long, lavish lives inside the corporate enclave of Hydra, while New Bloods are left with brief, hard lives on the outside. Amara has little interest in politics until her mother becomes one of the many New Blood women vanishing at an alarming pace.

To search for her mother, Amara joins the resistance and agrees to work as a spy. The assignment becomes far more complicated when she develops feelings for Stella, a sheltered Old Blood woman who is also the daughter of the person Amara has been sent to watch. Her heart already belongs to someone else, though: Rake, her boyhood friend and a charismatic, street-smart figure from the neighborhood where she grew up.

Torn between loyalty, love and a dangerous mission, Amara must piece together the secrets hidden inside Hydra while deciding where her heart truly lies. Content note: the book includes racism and body shaming from a character who is not the point-of-view narrator.