Inner Demons

Saide has grown up in a sheltered settlement known as Hopewell. For the first fourteen years of her life, she loved the Ten Principles she was taught to live by, hoping in a future she didn't understand but had faith would please Chapton, the man whose Principles are so revered in Hopewell. But when she loses her most trusted companion, her world and her beliefs are shattered, and three years later, she is an insecure and troubled rebel, dreading every anniversary of her friend's death. On the night of her attempted escape, she is caught and learns that her world is not nearly as small as she once believed. Lingering guilt has informed her every thought and action up to this point, yet by forging new relationships, she learns to challenge not just the people and the ideas around her but, eventually, her inner demons and the lies they tell her.