Roxy

Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781534451261
• eBook ISBN: 9781534451278

From the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Dry comes a "gritty and unflinching" ( Booklist ) thriller that proves when gods play games, even love is a lie. The freeway is coming.It will cut the neighborhood in two. Construction has already started, pushing toward this corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the momentum of the inevitable. Yet there you are, in the fifth house on the left, fighting for your life. Ramey, I.The victim of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), who is at the top of her game, and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall), who is tired of being the helpful one, and longs for a more dangerous, less wholesome image. The wager—a contest to see who can bring their mark to "the Party" first—is a race to the bottom of a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. And you are only human, dazzled by the lights and music. Drawn by what the drugs offer—tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful…and the troubled places that lie beyond.But there are two I. Rameys—Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy's orbit by a bad fall and a bad doctor and Ivy, his older sister, whose increasing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy.Which one are you?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1: Naloxone
• Chapter 2: Isaac, Ivy, and the Infinite Loser
• Chapter 3: Roxy Can’t Contain Herself
• Chapter 4: The Curvature of the Earth
• Chapter 5: The Prince of Attention
• Chapter 6: Exactly How to Fix It
• Chapter 7: No Chance Against the Undertow
• Chapter 8: Psychopharmacologisticexpialidocious
• Chapter 9: Heir to the Painless Throne
• Chapter 10: By No Means the Lair of a Bond Villain
• Chapter 11: There’s Only One Way to the Throne
• Chapter 12: Follow the Syringe
• Chapter 13: Few Places More Godforsaken
• Chapter 14: Weakness Leaving the Body
• Chapter 15: Reaching Across the Event Horizon
• Chapter 16: Just Another Distraction
• Chapter 17: The Keeper of the Cauldron
• Chapter 18: At Your Door in Two Days or Less
• Chapter 19: All Orbits Are Spirals
• Chapter 20: A Fallen King
• Chapter 21: The First to Leave the Party
• Chapter 22: Wherever Freight Trains Go
• Chapter 23: The Anatomy of an Extinction-Level Event
• Chapter 24: Guts on the Kitchen Table
• Chapter 25: Children of a Wasted God
• Chapter 26: Standing at the Edge of a Storm
• Chapter 27: Questions We Shouldn’t Ask, and Places We Shouldn’t Be
• Chapter 28: A Study in the Architecture of Doom
• Chapter 29: Somewhere Between Limbo and Lust
• Chapter 30: This Kind of Thing
• Chapter 31: At the Divergence of Two Sturdy Boughs
• Chapter 32: Shred Your Head with Blender Blades
• Chapter 33: Farther Than Anyone Else Dare Go
• Chapter 34: Tears of a Predator
• Chapter 35: The Tail End of Twilight
• Chapter 36: Never Seen Roxy so Radiant
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Copyright