Interesting mystery set in North Carolina sometime in the future (not entirely clear when, but there were references to futuristic devices and finally a character mentioned her grandfather talking about the war in the 2020s). The unanswered issue of when the story was taking place irked me throughout. It was not a dystopian world, per se, but there were some elements of dystopia, like a giant drug-dealing corporation that controls local governments. Romance, intrigue, murder. The characters were pretty flat. ( )