β Scribed by Chisholm, Jerri
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Four generations ago, Earth was rendered uninhabitable, the sun too hot, the land too barren. Those who survived were forced underground, where civilization divided into compounds. In Compound Eleven, only the cruel survive. Fighting is entertainment, violence is a way of life, and hierarchy is everything.
Sixteen-year-old Eve Hamilton may have been born on the second floor, but she was born to survive.
Except she doesnt want to survive compound life. She wants to be released aboveground, to feel fresh air against her skin, to taste true freedom, perhaps to even be reunited with someone important to her, now lost. But the government has a stranglehold over who is even allowed to view the outside world, and going against them isnt just dangerousits deadly. And now time is running out.
The privileged top-floorer Wren Edelman is as unhappy in Compound Eleven as Eve, despite his privileged status. Yet as determined as Eve is to taste freedom, he is determined to make her staybecause despite the fact that romances between upper and lower floors are all but nonexistent, Wren and Eve are proving the first of their kind in more ways than one.
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