For Darkness Shows the Stars

Fans of Divergent will love Diana Peterfreund's take on Jane Austen's Persuasion set in a post-apocalyptic world. In the dystopian future of For Darkness Shows the Stars, a genetic experiment has devastated humanity. In the aftermath, a new class system placed anti-technology Luddites in absolute power over vast estates-and any survivors living there. Elliot North is a dutiful Luddite and a dutiful daughter who runs her father's estate.
When the boy she loved, Kai, a servant, asked her to run away with him four years ago, she refused, although it broke her heart. Now Kai is back. And while Elliot longs for a second chance with her first love, she knows it could mean betraying everything she's been raised to believe is right. For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking YA romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.
A Jane Austen Retelling: Experience the classic tale of regret and longing, Persuasion, brilliantly reimagined against a dystopian backdrop where technology is taboo and society is broken. Friends to Lovers: She's a Luddite heiress, he was the servant boy who was her closest friend. Four years after she broke his heart, he's back, and their shared history is the one thing they can't escape. Duty vs.
Love: Elliot chose her family's crumbling estate once. Now that Kai has returned, successful and distant, she must decide if she's willing to betray her entire world for a second chance. Post-Apocalyptic World: Explore a richly detailed future built on the ashes of a genetic experiment, where a rigid class system divides survivors into the powerful Luddites and the resourceful Posts.