The Slums

In a post-apocalyptic San Francisco divided between the privileged Golden and the resilient Dreg, seventeen-year-old Kade Shaw, a wealthy Golden, finds his world upended after a false accusation threatens his life. Rescued by a guerrilla Dreg group, he is forced to confront the stark realities of survival and the divisions within his society, even as he begins to develop a deeper understanding of the people he once viewed as enemies. Caught between his old life and the new, Kade must decide where his loyalties truly lie in a city teetering on the brink of war.