In this society The Voltage is where everyone wants to be. To get there you either have to be born into it or face Time, the trials the people of The Flood face when they turn 19. If you fail you go back to The Flood to die, if you succeed you move to The Voltage where you get a job and make millions. Charlotte Ava is turning 19. Which means one of two things, 1. She succeeds in the trials and moves to The Voltage leaving her mother, sister, and her little brother behind, or 2. She fails the trials and she is killed. Loss isn't an option for Charlotte, because her mother is dying and when a parent dies the eldest sibling takes the others in, but Charlotte wants to be free. Henry, his twin brother Tristan, and their sister Kathrine have always wanted to find someway to destroy the trials, but never managed to. Their parents died when Henry was 10, he was the second eldest so he and Tristan became Katherine's responsibility. Henry wants to be free. In this tale these two will cross paths, but will they be able to over come the challenges that the other brings? Will they be able to finally be free from their awful government? Or will they be thrown to the rats chopped into little pieces?
Sanctuary. That was what the quarantine dome was supposed to be, a place of refuge from the N-Gel and the deadly Neoplague they unleashed on the world.
But we aren't safe here.
Senna is uprooted from her rural life in the outer dome when her mother agrees to marry the President of Sanctuary. It was supposed to be a Cinderella story, but Senna can't stand the health and status obsessed city. Her only escape comes from repairing an antique piece of wireless tech, an endeavor that is seemingly hopeless due to the interference that reduced such tech useless after the invasion. Senna believes that if she can get the device to work, she can use it to contact the life she left behind.
However, it isn't her old life she reaches when she gets the device to power on. Instead she catches the SOS of a little girl who claims to be held captive in the toxic world outside of the dome. The girl offers a reward for her rescue-the cure for the plague that forced humanity into quarantine and took Senna's father from her.
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