Winner of Earnesty's 2018 Urban Fiction Award

It's just a pretty pendant. A harmless necklace. Everyone wears them, like a talisman.
At least that's what sixteen year old Shai Eli has always believed. But why does her community enforce a law that keeps people from removing the necklaces?
When a book, a key and a vision begin to unravel the sinister secret behind her community, Shai discovers the guy she's falling for may not be who he says he is.

It's no ordinary book. It knows things.
And the secrets I've read in it are making me crazy.
I have to destroy the Book before
my obsession with it
destroys me.

Shai is sent to the strange, high-tech world of the Outerlands where she agrees to trade her personality and memories for implanted ones in order to capture Ava. But her old life keeps resurfacing; interrupting her mission and twisting her perception of what's real and what's not. Who can she trust when she can't even trust herself?