That's something the stories got wrong. Because the end of the world wasn't supposed to be like this.

Ripley Hart didn’t plan to break the law. But on her eighteenth birthday, the Administration bans all books. Which means that the story Ripley wrote years ago, about her first love, is contraband. It’s also gone viral. Suddenly, everyone is reading her story—and trying to write her next chapter: Lyceum, a group of vigilante librarians, wants her to fight with them; the Machs, a ruthless faction of the rebellion, want her to kill for them; and President Graves wants her to be his Propaganda Princess. Forced into a fake engagement with the president’s son and striking a tenuous truce with the annoyingly attractive leader of the Machs, Ripley takes control of the narrative. She doesn’t know if a love story can save the world, but no matter what—she’s going to write her own ending.