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After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell leaves school and gets a job to try and support her family and keep her alcoholic father away. But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest in his crew of freaks, to kidnap people off the street. Most of them are never seen again, killed or driven mad by Kore's experiments. Eden manages to get a job in the government's Archives, taking the place of one of Kore's victims, but Izrod keeps snatching more government employees.
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domestic violence, family, corruption, alcoholism, mild romance, morality, deception, serum, experiments, crime boss, abduction
Seventeen-year-old Eden is from the poor sector of Sendirian City. When a fire in their unit building displaces her family, they are moved to abandoned shacks with the rest of the survivors. It doesn’t take long for Eden’s abusive father to find them again. He forces Eden’s mother to give him money to fund his drinking habits. As they clean up from the aftermath of his attack, her mother begs Eden to get out of there, hopeful that her studies in the learning sector will get her a good job with accommodation. Eden is doubtful of this, but Eden’s brother, Jed, points out the vacant position in the government thanks to the recent abductions by crime boss Kore Luddan and his henchman, Izrod. Eden scores the position of junior keeper in the government sector due to the increased abductions targeting government employees. She quickly gains Head Keeper Susan’s praise for her hard work, and it isn’t long until she accrues enough overtime for some time off. Eden plans to use it to visit her family, but that night at her unit, Izrod attacks her. She wakes up in Kore’s lab, where she learns that her father sold her out for a few drinks. Kore injects her with a mysterious serum, and Eden passes out. When she wakes, a note is left in her cell, instructing her to try the door when the power goes out. Will Eden be able to escape? And how will the serum affect her? A captivating read about trust, betrayal, and deception in a dystopian world.
