Sprawl
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Ongoing1h 9m
Last published Fri, Jun 28, 2013
One hundred and fifty years into the future.
Olivia Waters lives in a sexist, polygamist, and locked community. She has never seen the outside world. When she meets Archer Johansen, a boy who has a troubled past, and who isn't too thrilled about the Compound in which they both live, she is thrown into a whirlwind of events that will change the history of the Compound forever.
Will she succeed or be stopped?
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