The Thousand Steps
β Scribed by Helen Brain
- Publisher
- Catalyst Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 649 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
On the brink of execution, 16 year old Ebba den Eeden is unexpectedly elevated from the bunker deep in Africa's Table Mountain where she has lived all her life, believingβas do all the other teenagers who toil daily to make their food and power the bunkerβthat the world "Above" is uninhabitable due to a nuclear holocaust. Instead, she is heiress to a massive fortuneβone that everyone wants to control. While dealing with the machinations of the High Priest, his handsome son Hal, and the rules and regulations of a society and religion she doesn't understand, she must also try and save her three friends, still stuck in the bunker and facing execution any day.
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