Every eight years, seven children - each hailing from a different continent - are stolen from their homes and repurposed as the Tiberius, contestants in a brutal competition no one even gets to watch. These children don't fight for applause, but for survival, as they're hurled into the infamous Tiberius Games - A series of seven psychological and physical trials, each designed around a universal human terror.
From a fear of fire, to a fear of decisions, to a fear of the dark, each game cuts deeper into the minds than the last. The victor is promised unimaginable wealth and a place amongst the shadowy royalty who orchestrate the games. The rest? If they're lucky, they'll be stripped of all they know, cast into the streets, nameless and disgraced. If not, the games will consume them entirely.
Seven strangers, seven rivals, and seven victims of a tradition they've never heard of, the children must confront not only each other, but their deepest, most primal fears, because in the Tiberius Games, the worst enemy is always yourself.
Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind.
Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk.
"The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one".
Authors notes:
-This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon.
-2013 Began writing Flawed
-2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered
-2016 Completed The Numbered
-2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.