The Halcyon Hours · Book One
The Halcyon Hours
She can't say her name. He can't say anything at all. Somewhere between sleep and waking, they fell in love anyway.
Sixteen-year-old June Okafor has a stutter, a video the whole school has seen, and a voice she only trusts when she's singing. Seventeen-year-old Ezra Lindqvist hasn't spoken a word since the fire that scarred him four years ago.
Then a new psychologist comes to Merritt Falls, Michigan, with a gentle smile and a strange cure. Fall asleep counting down from a hundred and you'll wake in Halcyon: a city of lanterns and warm seas where no one can see your scars, your stutter or your silence.
In Halcyon, June is Sparrow, fearless and fluent. Ezra is Moth, who won't stop talking. But Halcyon has one rule: you can never tell anyone how to find you in the waking world. And in Merritt Falls, kids are falling asleep and never waking up.
Would you rather be seen as perfect, or be seen as real?