Conform

Emeline is twenty-seven and has always been an outsider. She works alone, sorting ancient artworks that are slated for destruction. Centuries earlier a catastrophic war nearly wiped out humanity, and the survivors now live under the Illum, a technologically advanced and elusive group that monitors everyone's health and mandates procreation contracts.

The Illum have not taken a Mate in decades. Then one of them, Collin, chooses Emeline, and she has no idea why. She is pulled into the Courting, a dangerous contest in which a single wrong move means elimination.

Inside it, she learns that a rebellion is gathering in secret and that Collin may be hiding things from her. He is hard to read, cold one moment and protective the next. Meanwhile she is drawn to Hal, one of the resistance leaders and the last person she should want. As she grows closer to both men, the Illum answer unrest with increasing brutality.

This is the first book in a dystopian romance series set in the far future, built around a love triangle and a rebellion that is close to the surface. Emeline narrows her choices to loyalty, love and survival, and the book asks whether stopping the Illum will cost her heart, her life, or both.