UNMET is a dystopian, fairytale retelling of GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Dickens meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this propulsive novel with a literary voice. 

In a post-AI world where truth, human creativity, and longevity are at a premium, Suri Phillips wants two things: to be a famous journalist and to live forever. She lacks the resources to see her dreams come to fruition until, at age thirteen, she finds a mysterious fugitive hiding in the house her father rents to tourists. When she saves his life, he makes her a secret promise with a surreal reward, if she can meet his high expectations by her twenty-fifth birthday.

Suri begins to discover her aspirations are entangled with those of her sparring partner, Elle Avis. Elle is the adopted daughter of a billionaire recluse, Hatshepsut Avis, who runs the world’s largest company from a clandestine, underground town. Though Elle can be icy and manipulative, her desire to learn her parentage captivates Suri, whose mother died when she was two. Hatshepsut will do anything to make Elle the first female president of the United States, including leverage the talents of Elle’s best friend. 

Though Suri and Elle set out chasing two entirely different types of immortality, Suri realizes no one understands her like Elle, and she falls in love. Their prospects are indeed linked, but their benefactors have pitted their legacies one against the other. When Elle admits she doesn’t believe she can love because her biological parents threw her away, Suri is determined to learn and hand Elle the one thing she has always desired—the knowledge of her origins—but that might be the only expectation better left unmet.