About

In a city of glass skyscrapers, neon advertisements, and streets that never seem to sleep, Guest has learned that being invisible is sometimes the only way to survive. After losing her parents and refusing to be sent to an orphanage, seventeen-year-old Guest spends months living alone on the streets. School becomes another battlefield: whispers follow her, classmates mock her clothes and situation, and adults look through her as though she doesn't exist. Then she finds Lucian, nineteen, collapsed in an alley after being badly beaten. She could have walked away. Instead, she helps him. Lucian is involved with a dangerous criminal world, and he's used to people wanting something from him. He deals with drugs and dirty money. Guest's kindness confuses him. When he discovers that she has nowhere safe to go, he offers her the only thing he has: a place in his strange little home beneath an old bridge. The house is barely a home—small, damp, moldy, and hidden beneath the enormous city's infrastructure—but it becomes their sanctuary. He makes Guest a promise - he will protect her so she can get into the university of her dreams.