The seeds of wither: ebook sampler with exclusive short story

✍ Scribed by Lauren DeStefano

• Book ID: 100081019
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 129 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1442453990

✦ Synopsis

Step into the Chemical Garden with an all-new eBook sampler!

Discover the world author Lauren DeStefano created in Wither , a riveting dystopian thriller. In the not-so-distant future, fallout from genetic engineering causes all females to die at age twenty, and all males to die at twenty-five. Kidnapped from her home and torn from her twin brother Rowan, sixteen-year-old Rhine is forced into a polygamous marriage and taken to live in her husband's mansion. She has everything she wants--except for freedom. But her plans to escape and return home are complicated by a devious father-in-law, as well as Rhine's growing attraction to Gabriel, a servant who works on the estate. Read the first 100 pages of Wither and be captivated by Rhine's journey.

This eBook sampler includes an EXCLUSIVE, never-before-published short story by Lauren DeStefano! "The First Bride" reveals the events leading up to Wither , from the point of view of the bride that came before...