Rebecca is your average teenager. If your average teenager was kidnapped, and now fends for herself in a dying society. She was cut off from the world for 9 years, kept in a torture facility and never coming into contact with another human. She escapes, finding the world a dying mess, cities crumbling to ground and people dying from things like the common cold gone wrong. When she comes across a camp filled with people like her just trying to survive, she sees a new hope. But together they find that her torture years had a purpose, and she wasn't the only one. Their fight to stop it might just end in a fate worse than what was planned.
I know, I know, which young adult dystopian novel isn't like this? You might be inclined to skip to the next recommended story, or to not bother even reading this far. For those of you that made it here, whats a bit farther to the first chapter, or to the next? This is the first thing I've ever really written, besides mandatory narratives for english class, so cut me some slack here. If you don't like it, don't read it. But just give it a shot.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.