Departures by E. J. Wenstrom

Tonight, seventeen-year-old Evalee is scheduled to die.

She’s planned her celebration for weeks, and other than leaving her sister Gracelyn behind, she’s ready. The Directorate says this is how it should be, and she trusts them, as all its citizens do. So tonight she dresses up, she has a party, and she dances. Then she goes to sleep for the last time … except, the next morning, Evalee wakes up.

Swept away by rebels, Evalee must navigate a future she didn’t count on in a new, untidy world.

“Equal parts page-turning and thought-provoking, Departures is fantastic. It’s grounded in the best kind of world-building—the kind that delights and disturbs and allows us to see our own world with brand new eyes.”
— Lance Rubin, New York Times Bestselling Author of Denton Little’s Deathdate and Crying Laughing