Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone
to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a
friend.
Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the
Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a
new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm,
he is no longer even allowed to go outside.
Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he
knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child
like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the
shadows--does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he
afford not to?