A YA dystopian novel about a girl who perfected the art of disappearing — and the world that taught her to.
Under Augur — the intelligence that saved humanity from the sky, then taught it what to fear next — being an Evol is not a gift. It's a sentence. Dria has spent her whole life folding herself smaller, believing every lesson the screens ever taught: that what she is, is a curse. She's become very good at vanishing. It turns out that's a power, too.
Then the boy who's quietly guarded her for years pulls her out — into a hidden valley of people the regime swears don't exist. A brother she was never meant to find. A blind boy who reads the world in frequencies. A grey-eyed stranger who makes the impossible look like mercy. For the first time, Dria is seen. And being seen, she learns, is its own kind of terror.
They made a world that looks away from girls like her.
She is going to make it look.
EVOL, read backward, was only ever LOVE.
The AI that foresaw the disaster and "saved" the world. Now it watches everything — and decides what the world is allowed to fear.
People whose minds have begun to wake — the next step in human evolution. Catalogued. Hunted. Made to disappear.
Human Evolved Location & Lockup. Not a place. A designation. What you become the moment they decide what you are.
Silent, tireless retrieval units of one networked mind. When one finds you, all of them do.
A valley the regime swears doesn't exist, where the disappeared become something the world can't reach: a family.
Kali Renee writes young-adult science fiction about power, belonging, and the people a system decides to make invisible. EVOL is her debut novel — the first book in a planned series — born from a simple question: what if the thing the world taught you to hide was the most powerful thing about you?
The name is a nod to Kali, the goddess of destruction and transformation — fitting for a story about breaking the world open to become something new. She is currently at work on Book Two.
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