Application and Submission: The Regal Drawing, Women 16-19, Year x283. • • • My mind went blank. Every nerve in my body went numb, and my mouth went dry. My heart had stopped beating. This has to be a mistake. But in my life, there are no mistakes. There isn't going back. There isn't changing anything. And this? This was too far out of my control for me to have a say in anything that was about to happen. • • • The year is X283. The Earth you know now has fallen, leaving behind only one advanced civilization to hold all survivors. Well, most. In Môraine, sects of people separate the rich from the poor- there is no in between. But when Larkin Raleigh becomes that in between, she doesn't know what to do with herself. Born to an insolvent family and taken against her will to central Môraine, the heart of the country, her entire world is turned upside down, and so is that of everyone else she has ever known. When a threat to Môraine and its inhabitants becomes evident, the country falls to turmoil. The outskirts fray to edges and the center dwindles away, all while the royal family faces mayhem within the palace walls. Inner chaos changes Larkin in ways she never imagined, and outer chaos changes Môraine in ways its rulers never expected. With influences from stories like The Selection and The Jewel and from movies like The Purge, The Seven has everything from Romance to Action and Mystery. Will Larkin fall for her captors, or will she herself fall? Find out in The Seven- Book One of the Aegis Series.