About The Book

Wellness, motherhood, and technology converge in a near future California, as three women’s seemingly innocuous decisions have further-reaching consequences than any of them could imagine in this timely, clever, and white-knuckled thriller.

In 2060, the WellPod is the latest launch from the largest tech company the world has ever seen—a fleet of floating personal paradises scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean, focused entirely on health, solitude, and relaxation. Created by an enigmatic founder who will stop at nothing to ensure her company’s success, it is the long-awaited pinnacle of wellness technology. For newly pregnant Maggie, the six-week program is the perfect chance to get away…especially since the baby isn’t her partner’s.

Noa Behar isn’t a perfect fiancée. She’s too distracted, too focused on her work in helping program the WellPod to give Maggie the attention she deserves. But when she discovers something rotten beneath WellPod’s shiny exterior—a history of faulty tech and dangerous cover-ups—she knows one thing: she’ll do whatever it takes to keep Maggie safe.

The problem? The malfunctioning WellPods are already at sea. And there’s a storm coming...

About The Author

Paige Jones

Leslie Stephens

Leslie Stephens is the creator of the popular newsletter Morning Person. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Eater, and other outlets including Cupcakes & Cashmere, where she worked as an editor. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is currently earning her master’s in counseling, with specializations in addiction and ecotherapy, from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her pit-mix, Toast. You can find her at LeslieStephens.com and subscribe at MorningPersonNewsletter.com.

About The Reader

Carlotta Brentan

Why We Love It

“As these three women—Maggie, Noa, and Emmett—cross paths throughout Leslie Stephen’s carefully-spun plot, we are constantly struck by their complexity, their desires, their hopes, their ambitions, and their secrets. From the very first page, Leslie uses her background in lifestyle media and tech addiction counseling to craft a near-future world that feels like both a premonition and a warning, but with such exquisite detail it keeps you constantly surprised. As you disappear further into it, you begin to wonder just how far each woman will go to achieve the life she ultimately seeks for herself, and what that world might look like—all while asking yourself the very same thing.”

—Taylor R., Assistant Editor, on You’re Safe Here