Prenna James is an immigrant in New York and faces many of the challenges all immigrants face such as fitting in, making friends, and coping with a new world. There is one startling difference, Prenna is an immigrant from the future. The future she comes from is very bleak. Most of the population is dead due to a mosquito-borne disease. She, her mother, and others have escaped into the past in order to survive; however, they must follow very strict rules. They can not change history, never tell anyone where they came from and above all else do not become intimate with any natives. Prenna follows the rules because she believes they have returned to change the future. Everything changes after Prenna falls for native, Ethan and becomes to questions her leaders real reason for returning. "The Here and Now" is a riveting novel that you will not be able to put down.