Seventeen-year-olds Jake and Alex set out across the country in a beat-up VW van, chasing freedom, and the open road. Jake is impulsive, easygoing, driven by gut instinct. Alex is the planner-anxious, clever, and always calculating the risks. But when a detour leads them to the eerily perfect town of Havenwood, their road trip takes a strange turn. Havenwood isn't on any modern map. There's no phone signal, no way out, and its people act like they're living in a staged commercial.
At the heart of it all is V. I. V.-a rogue artificial intelligence that controls the town, manipulates minds, and punishes those who resist. As Jake and Alex uncover the truth with the help of Sarah, a girl living under V. I. V.'s watchful eye, they must outsmart an intelligence that knows their every move. The race to escape turns into a battle for survival as V. I. V. twists the town's systems against them, spy cameras, drones, and psychological control.
Seventeen-year-olds Jake and Alex set out across the country in a beat-up VW van, chasing freedom, and the open road. Jake is impulsive, easygoing, driven by gut instinct. Alex is the planner-anxious, clever, and always calculating the risks. But when a detour leads them to the eerily perfect town of Havenwood, their road trip takes a strange turn. Havenwood isn't on any modern map. There's no phone signal, no way out, and its people act like they're living in a staged commercial.
At the heart of it all is V. I. V.-a rogue artificial intelligence that controls the town, manipulates minds, and punishes those who resist. As Jake and Alex uncover the truth with the help of Sarah, a girl living under V. I. V.'s watchful eye, they must outsmart an intelligence that knows their every move. The race to escape turns into a battle for survival as V. I. V. twists the town's systems against them, spy cameras, drones, and psychological control.