In a cold, regulated future, emotion is outlawad.

Every citizen must take a daily pill to suppress feelings like love, grief, passion - anything that could disrupt the fragile "Equilibrium" that holds society together. Most completely forget what feeling ever was.

But Nova remembers the ghost of something warm a mother's laugh, a music file left unswept, the ache of wanting more. So she stops taking her pill.

When Nova begins to feel again, the world becomes dangerous. Her eyes open to color, music, hunger, heartbreak - and the terrifying power of love. She hides her emotions from the surveillance systems and the emotion enforcers... until she meets Lucian, a boy who has never taken the pill, and who lives completely off the grid.

Together, they explore what it means to feel in a world designed to erase them. But as the government closes in, Nova will have to choose: go back to numb safety... or risk everything for love, even if it costs her life