Sixteen-year-old Nate is a GEM--a Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue--created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population.
When he meets Reed, a kind and fiercely protective boy.
He manages to survive by becoming a Tinkerer, fixing broken tech in exchange for food or a safe place to sleep.
As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers--a quarantined, lawless region.
Sixteen-year-old Nate is a GEM--a Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue--created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population