In a world where the old have enslaved the young, the outlivers own everything – and everyone Medical advances have brought extended long life – but only for the elderly elite. The outlivers, hundreds of years old, hoard their wealth and cling to power, refusing to die. The old live in luxury, while the young are no better than slaves. London festers, a stagnant city ringed with fences and choked by surveillance. When martial arts prodigy Theia McKai is selected as a 'companion' for 200-year-old Rupert Geryon, minister for security, her every instinct is to run, resist, refuse. Hypnotised, tortured and beaten, she faces a stark choice: submit to the desires of a monstrous old man – or fight back and endanger everyone she loves. Seventeen, defiant, deadly – an irresistible force in a stagnant world Set in a dystopian near-future, 'Outlivers' is a sci-fi thriller for adults and young-adults.