In a town that forgets everyone, sometimes surviving is the only way to be remembered.

Granis Hook is not a place built for kindness.

Beneath the shadow of its great penitentiary, poverty and harsh law shape everyday life. For sixteen-year-old Yannee Verdan, survival has meant learning to be quicker than those chasing him and clever enough to disappear when necessary.

An orphan and skilled thief, Yannee doesn't steal for riches. Every coin, every scrap of food and every risk helps support the only family he has ever known — Lira, Bran, Nessa, Tal and little Midge.

To Granis Hook, Yannee is simply another troublesome stray.

To those who depend upon him, he is family.

Protective, fiercely independent and accustomed to trusting only himself, Yannee has never expected life to offer him anything more. But one unexpected encounter begins to challenge everything he has accepted about who he is and what his future can be.

For the first time, someone looks beyond the thief and sees something Yannee has never allowed himself to consider:

Potential.

And once another path has been placed before him, Yannee must decide whether surviving is enough — or whether he's finally ready to become something more.

Granis Hook may never remember Yannee Verdan.
But the people whose lives he touches will.