Follow the rules.Remember what happened.Never fall in love.áThis is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn´t come from a different country. She came from a different time a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.áPrenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they´re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she´s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth and stop humanity´s destruction.áBut everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves.áThrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, The Here and Now is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. A girl from the future might be able to save us ... if she lets go of the one thing she´s found to hold on to.