Ferryman

On the hidden archipelago of Prospera, the fortunate live long, gilded lives — until the monitor embedded in their forearm dips below ten percent and they are "retired": ferried across the water to the Nursery, where their bodies are renewed and their memories wiped for a fresh start.

Proctor Bennett performs those ferryings for a living, until the day he must retire his own father, who fights the boat and whispers a single cryptic word — "Oranios" — before he goes. That word unravels Proctor's certainty about his perfect world, pulling him toward an underground movement and the truth Prospera was built to hide.

A twisty, high-concept thriller from the author of The Passage.