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Wither (Paperback)
Series: Chemical Garden Trilogy (Quality), 01
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What if you knew exactly when you d 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 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 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?
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