It’s 2416, and the world is completely electronic. Libraries remain, but in electronic form. The books of the 21st century are locked away in a high tech government vault. Everyone learns, communicates, and sends messages via Mind Effacers; tiny mechanisms invented and patented by the government. Citizens live safely inside invisible, city sized domes.
Even worse? Sex has been outlawed. Babies come from "the bottom of a long glass tube," and human sexual contact—touching, feeling—has become a thing of the past.
Fortunately, a small faction of rebels opposes the government control. Their agenda? Restore the paper factories—and the barbaric atrocity known as human sexuality.
Shawnee Walters, the head of the North American Mind Efface program (N.A.M.E.), is hired to hunt down and prosecute the mutineers. On one spring day, barely a year into office, the infamous rebel leader Michael Che drugs Shawnee, kidnaps her, and takes her to a village hidden in the Rocky Mountains. The handsome dissident shocks her with revelations about the people behind the cause, the real problem with the 25th century society, and his own, earth-shattering secret; one that will change the future of the world.
