{"product_id":"9780998593500","title":"Loveless","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilence. After 74 years without laughter, without smiling, without touch, without kisses to dry dirty tears, this is what the world has come to know. Silence, and gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50 years from now, humanity voted to ban love from existence. It was their choice--a choice agreed on by everyone. So it was prohibited. Smiles were gone. Laughter was illegal. Kissing, hugging and touching were unthinkable. With each day that passed, eyes faded to a deep, empty gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what humanity did not know is that without love, there was only hate. And this hate destroyed the world. It was a disease inside humans that burned everything in its path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e97 people survived this destruction. 97 people who took refuge in an old, gray bunker underground that compliments their gray eyes. This is where the story begins--13 years after the world's end, with a people who know nothing except how to live in a world without love. No one speaks to each other. The thought of touching one another is repulsive. Their world is routine--meals, studies, Collaboration. It's like this every day. Laney's life is like this every day. The stories she has heard about what humanity used to be like when love existed are just that--stories. So she goes about her life like everyone else, living in fear and silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil her people start to learn how to hate, and the 97 realize one, simple fact: that love is needed if they are going to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith one final, desperate attempt, Laney and seven other teens--a boy named Nash with eyes a little less gray than the rest, a curious redhead named Theodore, Arsen, who keeps his face hidden behind dark sunglasses--are sent on a journey in the world above to discover love again and to bring it back to humanity before it's too late. But every step forward is a step into the past, and a look into a life Laney is not sure she even wants to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marissa Howard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49898544234736,"sku":"9780998593500","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998593500","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}