'Auction me off, at your peril. For I, am Leia Bowersox, and I will track you to the end of the earth, and place a dagger in your heart.'
When Leia finds out her missing Mother has been taken by an underground organisation from the New world a place beyond the society, she tries to track her down with the aid of a friend, Ashley Smart, and a tracker from the new world, Blake Lamont. She has to outwit the society at every turn, in order to find her Mother, a still young, woman taken solely to procreate. In the new world, women are scarce. Following genetic engineering in the Dark Past in order to create men, not women, for its world wars, evolution inevitably concluded that women give birth to men. The society, a heavily monitored, orderly, clean living environment, where Leah has been brought up, was created in order to breed females. And it's working. But, since meeting Blake from the new world, albeit under dreadful circumstances, Leia isn't sure whether the society is right for her anymore. Stay with Ashley, or risk it all for a life with Blake?
PLEASE NOTE: my writing is a lot better now.
In the not-so-distant future, the world has been ravaged by climate disasters, economic collapse, and technological overreach. The Earth's atmosphere is barely breathable in some areas, and society is divided into highly controlled, isolated Zones. These Zones are managed by an all-powerful governing body called The Ascendancy, which uses a combination of surveillance, propaganda, and strict population control to maintain order.
Beneath the surface, however, a rebellion is brewing. Youth, especially those born in the years after the Ascendancy's rise to power, have begun questioning the truth about the world they live in, and their place in it. In the midst of this unrest, a group of teenagers discovers an ancient artifact, believed to be a key to unlocking the world's true history and the secrets of the Ascendancy's origins.
Genre: Young Adult Dystopian