There are three things that eighteen-year-old Laney knows for sure: One, love does not exist anymore. Two, hate still exists. Three, her people need love to survive.
Laney was only five when hate destroyed the world. She was five when her mother was killed for stepping in a field of wildflowers. And she was five when she was taken here, to the Dome, a world where smiles and laughter and tears and touch have never been, and will never be. There are 97 people left. 97 tight-lipped, gray-eyed, blank-faced people that just ARE. They go about each mirror-image day without feeling because this is the way to survive–hate is dangerous, and love is dangerous, so they live somewhere in between.
But when Laney discovers that one of their own has learned how to hate, the 97 remaining realize one simple, terrifying thing: love must be vital to humanity’s survival. But love was lost a long time ago, and now, it’s not even a memory. With one final desperate attempt, Laney and seven others are sent to the world above to find love again and to bring it back before it’s too late. But the past–her mother’s death in field of wildflowers, the world being scraped to ash, the woman Laney saw with eyes brighter than the sun–is a place Laney is not sure she even wants to see.
Set just 50 years in the future, Loveless turns the contemporary love story upside-down with an all-too-real story of a world once destroyed by hate trying desperately to put itself back together again, with love as the final piece.