Self-Worth
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Last published Sat, Jan 16, 2016
When the mark appeared on Marley Chase's arm she had been ready. The gift of slavery for her sixteenth birthday was one she was certainly not grateful for, or willing to accept. So she ran. With nothing holding her back but human decency, young love and the microscopic trackers injected into her veins, Chase will test the true capabilities of the modern teen's defiance.
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