Book #3
The Year Rules were changeable.
Year 13 Academy Prep Course 2
Year 14 Three-Part Testing
Year 15 Choose Career Pathway
Year 16 Academy Prep Course 3
Year 17 Final School Test
Year 18 Anything not completed on time from Years 13, 14, 15, 16, or 17, result in Abandonment
If one reaches Year 18 and has abided by every Year Rule, then that individual is now considered an adult, and will no longer have Year Rules to follow. It is at this point we believe an individual has proven themselves worthy to be a part of our great society. Failure to uphold proper behavior is still not without consequence.
Year 13 was a struggle for me, finding my way on the streets, all alone. My life was constantly changing, my beliefs and ideologies a blur. I no longer knew where I stood. I had started to hear whisperings of a revolution, of people who wanted to make a change. People who aspired to be rid of the Government.
Year 13 didn't feel any different than all the other Years. Year 17 though, brought about change, long-awaited and necessary change, not only for myself but for others. Year 12: Abandonment for Felisha Martins, date of birth November 19th, 2509, the current number of Years in Abandonment, 11.
Year 18 was a long-awaited goal.
Year 18 was meant to free me, liberate me.
I was going to make that happen.
★★★★★ "right up there with Hunger Games"
I've reached my expiration date.
Not that it matters. We're all going to die.
To sixteen-year-old Micka, all words have flavours. Her emotions come with such force that she can't help but carve them into her skin. The night she decides to kill herself, she meets Runner -- a mysterious stranger who makes her question everything she's learned about the end of the world.
His message is terrifying: It wasn't some mysterious disease that killed ten billion people. We did this. Humanity sleepwalked into climate disaster and ecocide, just to butcher and rape until blood stained the seas.
Micka is sure Runner is lying. Her instincts urge her to stay far away from him. But he makes her an offer she finds hard to resist. There are only two rules she must follow:
Kill.
Survive.
Because the final wars were never meant to end.
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Available books in the 1/2986 Series:
Book 1: CUT
Book 2: FOG
Book 3: ICE
Book 4: VOW
Audio books narrated by Emma Galvin (Divergent Trilogy, Touched, A Shade of Vampire) are available at Audible.