What starts off as a lighthearted competition to live without modern technology for a year
turns into a fight for survival in this unputdownable young adult thriller by New York Times
bestselling author Jarrod Shusterman and debut author Sofía Lapuente. It was never meant to
happen this way. Things were never supposed to get this out of hand. After a cyberbullying
incident at her school goes viral Luna Iglesias finds herself at the heart of a brewing
controversy. When the social media company Limbo-who are also implicated in the scandal-sweeps
in with an offer that sounds like an opportunity to turn over a new leaf and receive a
scholarship to the college of her dreams she's happy to jump on the new trend. It's called the
Retro Challenge where contestants live without modern technology wear vintage clothes party
as if the future weren't already written and fall in love as if they were living in a movie.
At first the challenge is fun. But then things get dangerous. Kids start disappearing
including Luna's friends. There are voices in the woods. Bloodred markings on the trees. And
Luna increasingly begins to wonder if all these strange happenings are connected with the Retro
Challenge. Secrets. Lies. Betrayal. The weight of her family on her shoulders. There's so much
on the line for Luna not to mention she's falling in love with the last guy she expected.
Unless she can figure out the truth behind who's sabotaging the challenge the next person to
disappear may be Luna herself.
