Clark Elizabeth Ailen once was a young cheerful girl before it all went down. After being kidnapped on her 8th birthday and forced to live in a facility for 10 years changed her view of the world and everyone around her. She fought everyday wanting revenge and holding on to the thought that her family would still be alive. She gains the help of 4 strangers with similar goals as they experience love, loss, unexpected friendship, adventure, and many more all while trying to figure out the mess they were dragged into.
This story is set in the near future where children are hunted down and unknowingly taken from her family for reasons yet to be uncovered. Times are changing and certain people have developed a mutated gene that is unknown and possibly dangerous to the rest of man kind. The dilemma was put in the hands of the government and their solution was ,and still is , to kill everyone over the age of 20. As for the people under the age of 20, nobody really knows what happens to them after they've been taken except for the people behind all of. But, what happened when they want their subjects back?
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.