"I ready my finger on the trigger and pull. The shot sends shock waves through my body and I am slammed against the doors. His head slowly falls back on the chair. It is at this precise moment that everything inside of me breaks. All I can think of is my first kill. All I can think of is the guilt. The sharp pierce of the bullet landing crisply on his cold frail neck. My head pounds and the sound of silence throbs and screams inside my ears. It digs its hands violently into my head and shreds apart my senses. It destructs my mind, bit by bit, pulling apart every thought and every memory. Thousands of images flash through my mind. My mother, my father, Teddy, Jude. My conscience slowly falls into a hubbub of bright, white thoughts. I can't breathe. I can't remember. I can't think. I love you." Mara and Jude are living in a broken society, both fighting with their lives to put back the pieces of their world. A crime, an act of rebellion, has been committed in the government capital and authorities have scanned the eye print from cameras recording in the location of the crime. But when they do so, two people make an appearance. Mara and Jude. Brought together by the most unexpected of circumstances, the two help fight the broken and breaking civilization together. But through all of this we still don't know... Who really committed the crime?

Living in a world where the human race is dying off faster than it can reproduce, sixteen year old Maddie Ryan has started her period, an almost guaranteed sign of fertility. Knowing it's only a matter of time before the government finds out and forces her into the life of a Breeder, where her sole purpose will be to help repopulate the earth, she is faced with a harrowing decision. Does she willingly accept her fate or take matters into her own hands and run? Both options will tear her away from the life she has always known and from those she loves most, her parents and her best friend Travis, the boy who owns her heart. For nineteen year old Travis Brennan there are only three people in this world who matter... his mother, his little sister Grace, and his best friend Maddie. Maddie's sudden disappearance not only forces him to confront his feelings for her, but leads to a chain of events that will forever alter the course of their lives. As truths are revealed and lies are uncovered, Travis and Maddie will learn that there is much more at stake than they could have ever imagined. Highest Ranking: #1 in Science Fiction!!! 2016 WATTY winner! Updating weekly on Saturdays. Includes the original, unedited Wattpad version, and the new, completely edited and published version! We hope you love it!