New adult, queer dystopian novel with edge of your seat, exciting action & lovable realistic characters!

Chacha must conform in order to avoid execution, but conforming is its own psychological hell. Chacha needs a genuine friend to survive, but how can they find one when it’s too dangerous to trust?

The Stormland king is a god who can transform into a mountain lion and create super-crops with his magic. The Stormland people worship their divine monarch and adhere to dogmatic beliefs about gender. Every Stormlander is biologically male and they perceive all humans as male, but they see gender as unconnected to their sex organs. Instead, they believe a person’s gender reflects the purity of their soul. Five centuries ago, the God-King created the divine process – a holy method of shaping masculine teenagers into the purest gender, men.

Chacha is a teenager who faces the possibility of undergoing the divine process, but Chacha knows they will never become a man. Chacha is bent, which is an illegal gender punishable by death. They’ve never been good at hiding their bent nature and they believe it will only be a matter of time before they’re caught. Chacha begins to see the God-King for what he is, but doesn’t know what a gentle person like themself can do.

Chacha feels drawn to a clever and beautiful teenager named Setha. Chacha can’t risk showing vulnerability to Setha, but what Chacha doesn’t know is that trusting another person is resistance. Chacha will need Setha, not only to survive, but to grow strong enough to fight.