A stunning collection that displays King's phenomenally broad readership (stories published in the New Yorker, Playboy and McSweeney's and including the 25,000 word story "Gingerbread Girl" published in Esquire)-the first collection since King guest edited the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007.

The world has withered.

Humanity survives inside domes—sterile, regulated, suffocating. Outside lies the wasteland: fractured cities, toxic winds, and the ruthless corporations that harvest what little remains.

Elara Myles has never seen the open sky. But when she uncovers a secret long buried by those in power, she becomes the target of a relentless hunt. Her only chance lies beyond the walls of the dome, where rebels whisper of a sanctuary untouched by decay.

The Greenhouse. The last refu...