The first book in Lauren Oliver's New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love
revolution and the power to choose. In an alternate United States love has been declared a
dangerous disease and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure
called the Cure. Living with her aunt uncle and cousins in Portland Maine Lena Haloway is
very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe predictable life. She watched love
destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake. But with ninety-five days left
until her treatment Lena meets enigmatic Alex a boy from the Wilds who lives under the
government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?
