The Fifteen by Mat Wreford

Not all prisons need walls.

The Fifteen Minute City, was once considered the way of the future, a place to feel at home, connected, everything you needed within easy reach.

Civil wars bring each country to the brink of collapse, until the corporations step in. The conflicts eventually end, and the world settles into peace once more. But the corporations aren't interested in peace, only profit, at any cost.

Alrina and Kirion have lived their entire life in the Arcadia North Fifteen, everything they need is provided by Big Corp.

Why does the need to escape stir restlessly within them? Why were their fathers taken years before? Why do the women in the Fifteen live in fear of something unseen, something that comes for them in the night, something they can only remember in their nightmares?

A chance meeting with a stranger convinces them that they must escape the Fifteen if they're ever to learn the answers.

The Fifteen... escaping is just the...