The Trade ( lisamcmann)

In the year 2314, women are traded like property. After a plague and years of war - A second, more devastating Dark Ages - wiped out much of the world's population, the government decided that marriages would be arranged, and couple's would be required to produce children within certain periods of time. But of course, nothing ever goes according to plan. Men and women, unhappy with their marriages, began trading off. And then, as another wave of Famine swept through the land, men became desperate, and so the Trade was born. Illegal for 200 years, the government, corrupt and crumbling, finally legalized it. That was the year Darcy Fable turned 15. Life was never the same. In a desperate attempt to stay alive and unclaimed, she flees to the forest and lives with a group of rouge girls, each hiding desperately from the world of The Trade. But, is all hope lost, or are there men out there who are willing to fight - and even die - to end the injustice of the Earth?