The Boy Who Stole His Tomorrow

About this book

At seventeen, every citizen of Darnwick gives the guardian Saints one year of their future. The gift keeps the walls standing, the streets safe, and people like Tavrik Ostrell’s mother alive.

Ten days before his next birthday, Tavrik meets a stranger wearing his father’s coat. The man has Tavrik’s face, twenty years older, and a list of teenagers who have disappeared.

The Saints have been taking far more than a year. Beneath their cathedral, stolen futures are becoming people: older, dangerous versions of children who have never had the chance to grow up.

With a courier, a mechanic, and a printer’s apprentice, Tavrik plans to steal those futures back. But the city runs on what was taken. Opening the vault could free his generation and leave everyone he loves unprotected.

And the man who knows how to stop him is the person he might become.