THE COUNT REACHED ZERO.
The world has learned to live behind fences, under rules no one questions, in a future someone else has already decided.
Cora has never known anything else. In her town, tones tell everyone when to wake, eat, work and sleep, and nobody asks where the trucks go. She has learned to make herself small, so that no one looks at her twice. But every morning she slips through a hole in the fence and runs into the forest, the one place that feels like hers.
One morning the forest gives her something she was never meant to find: a wounded stranger who has been locked away for seventeen years, and who remembers a world before the fences.
Back inside the fence there is Sarah, her oldest friend, who has kept Cora's secrets since they were twelve, and the one person Cora has never quite found the words for. The closer Cora comes to the truth, the more she has to risk: her friends, her freedom, and the people she loves most.
But some questions refuse to stay buried. And some answers change everything.
The Salamander Project: Count Zero is a dystopian novel about survival, love and the price of being free.