"I felt like a prisoner in my own body. A prisoner in my own mind. And I wondered...." "Not to mention the girl stalking me all day or the crazy scent that was hunting me and driving me crazy," I struggled to breathe. Have you ever felt that something was missing from your life? Something crucial for who you are, but you just don't know what it is, or how to get to it? Have you ever felt that your life didn't make any sense, and suddenly everything falls into place, but it's somehow harder than how it was before? Well, that was what Alice felt, before her life flipped upside down. She had no family, but her parents, She had no friends. She was alone, until she became 18. Suddenly love opened its doors forcing her to make choices she never seen herself making. She was homeschooled, but not anymore. She thought she was a normal teenager, but she is not. Normal is something she never has been introduced to, because she is not. No she is something more. She is something more powerful. Everyone is threatened by her, everyone wants to kill her. She is going to lose people, very close people to her. Will she conquer her fear, her grief, to become what she was distant to, and fight for her life beside her family? Or will her fears be stronger than her, and make her lose everyone?

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!