


There she also meets the leader of Sector 45, Warner, who wants to use Juliette’s lethal touch in his fight against the rebels. They take her to Sector 45, one of the areas under control of The Reestablishment, where she finds out that Adam is a soldier who was sent to spy on her. One day soldiers storm into the cell and take Juliette away. Yet with time, the two start to talk, and Juliette teaches Adam how to survive in the asylum, while Adam, seeing that Juliette is cold, gives her his blanket. At first, she avoids talking to him, and Adam behaves aggressively, taking away Juliette’s blanket and pillow.

Juliette has a feeling that she had seen him somewhere before by she can’t remember exactly when and where it happened. She is stunned and confused when she realizes that her cellmate is a boy named Adam and he is of the same age as her. One day Juliette learns that she will have a cellmate. The totalitarian government that has taken over the country, The Reestablishment, put Juliette in an asylum because it wants to use her lethal touch as a weapon in the fight against the underground forces. After she accidentally killed a little boy, Juliette has been kept in various detention centers, and although she is not dangerous for the society, she has been isolated for so long she begins to doubt her sanity. Shatter Me opens with Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old-girl, being locked in a small cell of an asylum because of her lethal touch.
