BOOK 1 // Human Error (COMPLETE) BOOK 2 // Human Instinct (IN PROGRESS) *NOW OPTIONED FOR A TV SHOW* "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness engineered right into their DNA." - William Shakespeare, 1602 (adapted for BioPlus) Astrid Oxford is not normal. Two hundred years into the future, society is recovering from global collapse, and genetic modification has saved the remaining population from a hunger crisis. The alteration of human DNA has been illegal since the technology was developed, but in the heart of New London, a sinister trend has emerged among society's elite. Designer children have been the city's best-kept secret for years, but strange side effects are now appearing as they hit adolescence. When a freak suicide forces modification into the public eye, eighteen-year-old Astrid is about to learn how difficult it is to stay under the radar when you really were born to stand out.

She never failed her order. He learnt to see danger. Their path clashed, reckoning to destroy one another. ••• "Kill me already! What are you waiting for?!" He crouched down, giving her a look she had never seen before. Something she first thought was curiosity, but there was more; there was sympathy. "Because I don't understand you, and you don't understand me." ••• The city flourished, the power spread, and the force reigned from the ruling of PEACE. But deep within laid a secret they hid for centuries. They kept her alive. They put her on a leash. They use her for stability. She was Joule, a stolen relic from their enemy. Ash live all his life inside walls. He revolted against everything he didn't understand until one day, a tragedy hit, and he met Joule. At first glance, she was destruction. But something was keeping him from ending her; conscience. The stigma of fear would soon collide with conscience. And in order to save his family, Ash would put an end to PEACE. ••• Beautiful cover credit to @guinealove2005

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.