The Programmed

Kizzura Tembrook lives in a universe where nothing is as it seems. Planet Shierra's oxygen is a toxic fume to the lungs but it was the only planet stable enough for humans to live on, and unfortunately leaving is against the law. On Shierra, things work differently, survival is based on brains, and how gullible you are. People who don't pass the graduation exam are considered a waste of resources, rendered useless to the government and are killed in an instant. Those who do pass are sentenced to a lifetime of computers, programming, engineering, and bitter tasting protein pellets, and no one has ever managed to escape this fate. Until Kizzura. Because she's one of the few people who sees what the government is really doing.