A post-apocalyptic Romeo and Juliette story filtered through gas masks and set in apocryphal suburbia, where everything is just a little bit wrong...

The sky is on fire but Phrae has learned not to sweat the small stuff. The only thing Phrae cares about is getting past the wall and entering the perfect city of AsBest. Six years ago, he lost the best thing he'd ever known behind the wall, and he means to get it back.

When a work program opens up, allowing entrance into AsBest, Phrae is first in line. He plays the role of good little worker bee, because what's the old saying? Fake it until you take it?

Six years ago, Melody was sold to the creepy bird-masked healer of AsBest. Trapped in the revolving ivory tower at the centre of the metropolis, she is forced to sell parts of herself. Everything from her voice to her blood is packaged, commercialized and consumed by the rich. But Melody is not a little bird in a fragile cage, and she is determined to find a way out, even if it's on the end of a self-made noose.

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