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Chemical Garden #1
Simon & Schuster
April 2011
On Sale: March 22, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 1442409053
EAN: 9781442409057
Kindle: B003UYUOOK
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Young Adult
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live.
She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A
botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males
with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of
20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to
restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the
population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young
girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to
bear more children. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do
all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly
in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him
as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world
of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it
almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away
her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not
everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it
seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on
finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement.
Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and
feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to
her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be
able to escape--before her time runs out?
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