Melanie Andrews was a normal 17 year old girl, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Except for one, underlying trait: She had a horrible bloodthirst for vengeance.
Oh that, and she lived in a world with some weird shit going on man.
Orphaned by her parents at a young age, left with nothing but her younger brother Eileigh to call family, Melanie had life thrown at her. Literally.
Raised in an orphanage, she was taught how to fight and survive, in an attempt to protect future generations.
When she outgrew the orphanage at age 17, she took her little brother and made somewhat of life for them both. Well, as much as a life for them as she could. You see in this world, people's lives got turned upside down pretty quickly, and if you didn't learn to adapt fast, you were killed.
A deadly virus, scientists called the "Slaughter Virus" that invades the brain, and removes any sanity you have, turning you into a walking death trap, took over the earth, decreasing the population by 84%, and leaving the earth in shambles.
VICD, (Virus Investigation and Cure Department) is an organization led by Marcus Sherwood, in an attempt to control the virus. Teams are sent out every month, to monitor citizens' health, and detect those infected by the virus. Those who are infected, are killed on sight.
After an incident that shattered Melanie's world she developed a blood thirst for vengeance, against the one who took away her happiness.
With the help of her life long best friend, Mason Barnes, and a determination like no other, Melanie sets off on a mission, a mission that ends with her enemy's head on a spike.
A dystopian novel featuring adventure, blood lust, loss, death, inner demons, an assassination plot, and a sprinkle of friends to enemies to lovers romance.
With plot twists, romance, and the will to survive, will Melanie successfully accomplish her mission? Or will it end up in flames?
Keep reading to find out.
There is nothing as powerful in life as your first love. When this happens after clacking to a strange new world where people reverse age-let's say it's complicated.
Demalynn is a seventeen-year-old girl from a small town who one day hears a loud 'clack' and is transported to the planet Saffire. Naked. Then things really get weird. No child has ever been born on Saffire; clackers make up the entire population. All people who clack under thirty reverse age: each year they grow younger. As an awkward teenager plagued by panic attacks who dabbles in comedy, Demalynn just wants to go home to be re-united with her family. Citizens over thirty grow old and are forced to mine the mineral that powers giant cooling stations to keep the planet habitable. Citizens solve disputes with gladiatorial combat.
The prophesy of The Coming
In Saffire's time of greatest need, a child will be born to a special woman, the Gravidarum. The child, who has no father of this planet, will be known as the Unum, a child to lead Saffire. The Helper will battle to keep the Gravidarum safe until the Unum is born.
The people of Saffire have been waiting to see The Coming fulfilled. Demalynn assembles a group of clackers to get her home, the most important of which is a fellow clacker: eighteen-year-old Aiden. It is not long before Jago, the ruler of Saffire, learns that a woman on Saffire is pregnant and he unleashes all his power to prevent the birth. Jago will not give up power. Demalynn is surprised to find out she is the Helper, but is astounded to learn the identity of the Gravidarum.
Demalynn must battle to stay alive and fumbles towards the realization that Aiden is much more than a close friend. She is certain, with the certainty that only a seventeen-year-old can possess, that Aiden is her only true love. Demalynn is desperate to find a way back home until she must make a choice: stay with Aiden on Saffire or go back home and re-unite her family. There's no place like home.