☆DISCLAIMER☆ THIS STORY ISN'T MINE IM POSTING THIS SO NOT ONLY EVERYONE ELSE CAN READ THIS BUT I CAN TOO. THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK SO I WANT TO KEEP IT ALIVE. PLEASE DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME also there are a few tiny typos in this that I fixed I hope that's okay There is now a new cover (credits at the end of description) if there are ANY problems with the cover, please let me know what's wrong with it and I'll fix it. Thank you all so much for taking as much interest in this story as me! ☆END OF DISCLAIMER☆ Also I don't have the original description so I'll just elaborate and use one I saw on another book "Two whole months of free laundry in exchange for two weeks of being my fake boyfriend. Deal?" Keith hesitated for a moment. Was this really worth it? Hardly. Lance was an asshole, and he wasn't sure what fake dating would entail. But, free laundry was free laundry, right? "Alright, it's a deal." Or: Lance makes the mistake of telling his mom he has a boyfriend coming home with him for Christmas. Keith makes the mistake of agreeing to be Lance's 'fake boyfriend' Credits to k-lance for the description If you see any typos you can comment of them and I'll fix it Credits to Ren for making the cover and wayward.mw for the art. I love this story more than life itself and my heart just can't get enough. I've read this story so many times and now you can too.

Mari's doing well for herself. She has a new partner, her pockets are full of gold, and her town's sheriff is none the wiser about her profession as a hired bounty hunter. Her future is looking good. But when someone hires her to kill an old friend, Mari learns that she can't run from the ghosts of her past. Not for long.

Matthew Sohinki can only say he's successful in one thing, and that's politics. He's managed to become one of Kolea's five governors and wields tremendous power. But he didn't get there with the love of the people; he got there by blackmailing everyone who got in his way. If there's one thing Matthew's learned, it's that everyone has a secret. Mari Takahashi grew up in the slums, where no one can vote, and everyone struggles to put food on their tables. Containing the poorest citizens of Opanx, people the government doesn't care about, the slums are a horrible place to live. Death, disease, hunger... these are all things Mari is familiar with. Growing up in the slums has made her into the woman she is today; a strong, intelligent person... who kills people to get the money she needs. When someone hires Mari to kill Matthew, she doesn't hesitate to take the offer. But when killing him turns out to be harder than she originally thought, she has to change up her tactics. She has to get close enough to him to kill him, but how close will she get to the corrupt politician? Cover by @shipperson

In the nation of Escana, everything you are relates to your rank. Your job, your house, your food... everything. There's only one way to move up a rank; through the tests. Matthew Sohinki is a yellow, the second lowest sub-rank in the lowest rank, the colors. As a factory worker, his job is hard, and dangerous. He's never even seen the sun. When he turns eighteen and takes his Tests, he's far from confident. His brother barely passed, and he expects to follow the same path. But when he learns his score at the Announcement, he's shocked. Because Matthew didn't just pass... He became an Elite.

This is the Dead Zone. And they are who occupy it.