Levin and the Wild Zones

In a world where everyone is born with a power, Levin Hartwell has none.

At Oakridge Academy, students bend steel, phase through walls, and float above the running track. Levin can't do any of it. In a society that treats ability as destiny, being "powerless" makes him invisible—a statistical error even his own family has quietly stopped expecting anything from.

Then a rogue superhuman tears through the border fence, and Levin runs the wrong way: past the wire, into the Wild Zones—the quarantined ruins where the failed, the feral, and the forgotten are left to rot.

There, among a band of outcasts with nothing left to lose, Levin discovers the impossible. In a world that worships destruction, he can "heal". Not patch. Not mend. Make whole. It's the rarest gift anyone has ever seen—and the instant it's revealed, every warlord and government scientist on both sides of the fence wants to own him.

But the deeper Levin digs, the darker the truth becomes. The powerless weren't born broken. They were "made" that way—engineered, catalogued, and discarded by the same people who built the Wild Zones to bury the evidence. And the man who ran the program is far closer to home than Levin ever imagined.

To save the family he's found—and the thousands of kids still trapped in the machine—Levin will have to decide what kind of power actually matters: the kind that breaks the world, or the kind brave enough to put it back together.

"Levin and the Wild Zones" is a propulsive YA dystopian adventure about found family, buried secrets, and the quiet strength it takes to heal in a world built to destroy.

Perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer's "Renegades", Alexandra Bracken's "The Darkest Minds", and Marie Lu's "Legend".

One boy. No powers. One truth strong enough to bring an empire down.

Cross the fence.