Banished

In a world where love across class lines means exile—or death—Kael Ashborn made the wrong choice.

Kael was just an engineer in Citadel Alpha, brilliant but invisible beneath the city's strict genetic hierarchy. Then he fell in love with Eryn Caelum—heir to House Caelum, the surveillance power that sees everything.

Their forbidden romance should have stayed secret. It didn't.

Now Kael is exiled to the Wastelands, sentenced to die among the clans the Citadel claims are savage and lawless. When Kael's father is executed in a brutal purge of dissenters, everything changes.

Grief becomes fury. Survival becomes resistance. And the exiled engineer becomes something the Five ruling Houses never expected: A symbol. A leader. A threat.

Perfect for fans of Red Rising, The Hunger Games, and Dune.