The Titan was erected eighteen years ago. Called the Reparation Wall, the Quarantine Line, The Blight, it separates Davenport, from The Feral Zone. The wall has guards stationed on top with guns and cameras facing East. The wall had been constructed to contain the Ferae Virus that had been created by the Titan Corporation. The plague quickly overtook the Eastern seaboard, caused other nations to cut off the US, and led to laws prohibiting congress to or from the infected East. The line was drawn right at the Mississippi River. Rumor has it that the plague has caused some victims to mutate into monsters. Sixteen year old Delaney Lane McEvoy is snatched from a party by a biohazard unit. It is impossible that she is infected! Isn't it? Lane discovers that her father is a fetch. He crosses the border to reclaim lost art from the Chicago Art Museum. Lane is sent in search of her father. Crossing into the East is punishable by death, but Director Spuring claims that she will destroy all evidence of his transgressions if he will fetch something for her. Delaney has only five days in which to find him and deliver the message. She encounters two seemingly opposite benefactors who facilitate her journey: Line Guard Everson and Hunter Rafe, who has ties to her father. Lane learns that "safe and happy don't always go together." I love the title - very appropriate, but I found the cover art to be deceptive.
Truman Award Preliminary Award 2015-16
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