LIJAH

What if the Gilded Age never ended?

What if, during the Panic of 1907, the American banking system failed, leading to the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange and a violent national uprising?

What if a faction of robber barons led a coup against the American government, convincing citizens to trade their birthright for economic security and terminate the American experiment, replacing the system of democracy with aristocratic rule?

What would life be like more than a century after the fall of America?

Welcome to New Anglia.

The former United States have fractured into several small nations. One of these is New Anglia, a country governed by a powerful Council that caters to the elite by stifling technological development, curtailing individual liberty and exploiting the masses. In New Anglia, even your name is not your own.

Lijah Driver is an ordinary teenage boy, a boy whose simple life is upended when first his father, and then his mother goes missing. Ministry officials from the Division of Family Intervention snatch young Lijah from his home and remand him to the care of an eerie and enigmatic facility known as…

The Linderhaven Home for Orphaned
and Incorrigible Children.

Lijah is befriended by Simon Ostler, a congenial teenager with a tragic past.

He is mentored by Naomi Wilde, a former foundling whose forbidden love threatens the future she has been groomed for all her life.

He falls for Melissa Dimotika, an orphan whose rare talent attracts unwanted attention from dangerous people.

Linderhaven itself has a dark, long-held secret, one that puts a target on Melissa’s back and threatens to tear the young couple away from each other before their love has a chance to blossom.

Can young love survive in a corrupt system built on class division, exploitation and greed?