Seventeen-year-old Xander Astral has learned to survive by questioning everything—the people around him, the memories inside him, and the parts of himself everyone else keeps trying to explain. But when a vision of reporter Caroleena Cornelius falling through an apocalypse collapses into a living Book, his search for answers leads to a secret drug trial, psychiatric records his therapist should never possess, and evidence that she knows far more about his family than she should.
  As Cerevane-9 sharpens his senses and sleep paralysis tears open memories he buried to survive, Xander is pulled between Centennial’s polished ambitions and the people who formed him on Haines Street in Liberty. The closer he gets to the truth, the more those worlds begin pressing against each other. When the people he loves become targets, the distance between his past and present begins to fracture—and his questions stop being about what is wrong with him and start asking who gets to define him.
  The voices gathering beneath the static do not explain themselves. They repeat one command: Endure.
  Something beneath the world remembers what the flesh forgets—and Xander may be the only one willing to listen.