Survivors of nuclear fallout live in a city underground, and Sasha Cadell is one of them. Ariel Sullivan's second Conform novel follows her into a covert mission above ground.

Readical Key Points

• Book 2 of 3 in the Conform series, according to the publisher; set hundreds of years before Emeline's story
• A dystopian romance built around a brutal training program, a mission above ground and a commander she is drawn to
• A New York Times bestseller, according to the publisher; reviewed in Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal
• Hardcover, 464 pages, Ballantine Books, 2026

Sasha is twenty-three when Commander Tristian Hayes chooses her for the operation. First comes a brutal training program with more riding on it than her own life: the future of what remains of humankind. Among the other recruits she finds friends and rivals, while the pull between her and Tristian tests the walls she has built around herself.

Deception runs through the underground city, and a new power is gathering that could outstrip every danger its people have faced. It suits readers of dystopian romance who want survival stakes as high as the love story. Core, the next book, returns to Emeline and is announced for February 2027.

About the Author

Ariel Sullivan wrote Conform, the first book in the series. Her biography notes that she grew up in a military family that moved every two years, and that watching from the edges as the new kid drew her to reading.

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