Plague: The Nexus Series||1
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In the great city of Nexus, everything is perfect. There's no such thing as starvation, poverty, or sickness. Except for Savannah Blackspark.
Savvy, a 13 year-old who lives in Nexus' orphanage: Cyril's Home For Abandoned Children, works as a slave for the malicious Draven family, is only fed once a week and is subject to brutal beatings at the rough hands of Nicson. Not to mention the peculiar injections she receives each Thursday that leaves her feeling confused.
One day, Savvy snaps. She decides to escape the horrid orphanage and venture into the world that she had been refused of for eight years.
Along the way, she unknowingly crosses the border that divides the rival cities of Nexus and Kinorax. Savvy is discovered, half-dead, by Kai Jaeger and is brought to the Adderhill.
Back at Nexus, something is wrong. People are falling ill to deadly sickness and the Nexus system is not there to cure them.
Can Savvy and her newfound friends save the Nexans or will they die trying?
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