a world devastated by climate change a society ruled by fear and a girl brave enough to take a standnow an outlaw lettas world is more dangerous than ever the new ruler of ark has limited language to under five hundred words and there are terrible whispers of babies disappearing in the nightletta devotes herself to keeping language alive teaching in secret illegal schools but at great risk and when disaster strikes she takes the blame haunted by grief and hunted by gavvers she and marlo are forced to flee in the process discovering the terrible plan to wipe out language for good