The Only Way Out of Dark City

For years, Wilma Cross has tried to outrun the deadliest truth in Dark City—that freedom comes only to those willing to risk everything. Hidden beneath a collapsed world, Dark City is a maze of limestone cliffs, boiling tunnels, and watchful machines. The police hunt her kind. The walls listen. And the city's ruling intelligence, Axis, waits for the perfect moment to claim her mind. When a mysterious black box arrives at her door—sent by the parents she thought she'd lost—Wilma is thrown into a conspiracy that reaches from the Outer Ring's crumbling streets to the deepest tunnels where rebels, machines, and monsters clash in the dark. With friends she trusts, and others she shouldn't, Wilma races to unravel the box's secrets before Axis can turn the city's own systems against her. But surviving Dark City isn't enough. To escape it, Wilma must uncover who she really is—and why the city itself seems to know her name. A gripping story of rebellion, identity, and the fight to stay human in a world determined to take that humanity away, The Only Way Out of Dark City is the start of an unforgettable journey into a world beneath our own.