Part 1 of chapter 1 of "The Sun in the Shadows"

Riah has faced many hardships already in her young life and it is only beginning. After being brought up in a society where the air is considered poison and watching her parents die in an inexplicable accident, things just seem to be getting even more hectic. On the day she is granted a position in her society, she is shocked to find that she was selected into government services, something that is simply unheard of. Riah is to be shipped away from her remaining family into the foreign area of the heart of the legion. Her life begins to be submerged even further in chaos when the legion's secrets begin to unravel in her hands. Everything she knows is a lie. Every familiar face is a stranger. In a struggle between life and death, she risks it all to find out the truth. Is it worth the costs it takes?