He manages to survive by becoming a Tinkerer, fixing broken tech in exchange for food or a safe place to sleep. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers - a quarantined, lawless region.

Unless the cats have already destroyed them.Sixteen-year-old Nate is a Gem - a Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogate - created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung-rot ravaging the population. She can often be found writing at her stand-up desk, surrounded by house plants. A graduate of the University of Florida, Maria lives near a wetlands preserve with two dogs, two cats, two children, and two billion mosquitoes. Her love languages are snacks, queer joy, and live music. Maria Ingrande Mora is a content strategist and a brunch enthusiast. With time running out, Nate is left with only two options: work for a shadowy terrorist organization that has the means to keep him alive, or stay-and die-with the boy he loves. When violence erupts across the Withers, Nate’s illegal supply of medicine is cut off, and a vicious attack on Reed threatens to expose his secret. When he meets Reed, a kind and fiercely protective boy who makes his heart race, and his misfit gang of scavengers, Nate finds the family he’s always longed for-even if he can’t risk telling them what he is.īut Gathos created a genetic fail-safe in their GEMs-a flaw in their DNA that causes their health to rapidly deteriorate as they age unless they are regularly dosed with medication controlled by Gathos City. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers-a quarantined, lawless region. Sixteen-year-old Nate is a GEM-a Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue-created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population.

Fragile remedy by maria ingrande mora