โ Scribed by Destefano, Lauren
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From Book 1: What if you knew exactly when youd die? The first book of The Chemical Garden Trilogy.
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years, and females a lifespan of 20 years--leaving the world in a state of panic. Geneticists seek 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 sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Yet her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine cant bring herself to hate him as much as shed 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 husbands 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 has no way to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive.
Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
It's a night like any other for punk rock band Green is the Enemy. Having just completed a gig in their hometown of Seattle, they pile into their van, headed for San Francisco to open for their idols Peroxide and with any luck, get signed to Withering Skin Records. Unfortunately, things don't go e
**Time is running out for Rhine in this conclusion to the _New York Times_ bestselling Chemical Garden Trilogy.** With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughnโs worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor
**Time is running out for Rhine in this conclusion to the _New York Times_ bestselling Chemical Garden Trilogy.** With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughnโs worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor
Roz is a woman of independent means who thinks love is all in the past-but she's about to be taken by surprise. Number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel of her *In the Garden* trilogy, as three women discover the secrets from the past contained within their historic home
**Dr Jaqueline Silver blows things up to keep people safe.** Working on avalanche control in Slovenia, she stumbles across a delivery problem with a consignment of explosives. After raising a complaint with the supplier, Zagrovyl, a multinational chemical company and her ex-employer, her evi