Description:

Aiden's spent his entire life confined to a windowless castle, convinced he’s the centre and purpose of the entire universe. When the castle burns down, casting Aiden and his companions, Selina and Alej, into an unknown world, Aiden can’t wait to discover what wonders await. He's in for one disappointment after another. How will he survive his appalling legacy? Selina knows what used to lie outside the castle, at the bottom of the mountain. Her greatest fear is that it's still there, just as it was. But she'll discover something much worse... Alej just wants to work. With his tools gone, what's the point of him, out in an apparently barren world? The Pulse is a pacey, snaking journey of a dystopian YA novel, following three very different 19-year-olds newly cast into a barely-inhabited landscape, about which only one of them knows anything at all - but even her knowledge is long out of date. Each has much to learn about who they are, and why...and as the truths of this world unfold, there are choices only they can make... **