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.

Die lebensfrohe Maria bekommt die Chance ihres Lebens: Sie darf an einem Spiel teilnehmen, dessen Preis nicht nur viel Geld, sondern auch die Hauptrolle in einem großen Film ist. Über hundert Jugendliche treffen dabei in Gruppen aus Jägern und Gejagten in einem großen Waldgebiet aufeinander. Zwei Wochen lang werden Maria und ihr Team auf der Flucht vor ihren Gegnern rund um die Uhr gefilmt. Ein ehrgeiziger Regisseur will aus ihrer Geschichte den erfolgreichsten Film des kommenden Jahres machen. Doch was, wenn das Spiel langsam außer Kontrolle gerät? Wenn die Regeln gebogen und gebrochen werden? ... *LESEPROBE*