Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape-to find her twin brother and go home.īut Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb-males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. Goodreads summary-What if you knew exactly when you would die?

Anderson's Thrilling Tales and its sequel, The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen. For middle grader readers, his novels include Whales on Stilts: M. He has written such young adult books as Thirsty, Burger Wuss, Feed, The Game of Sunken Places, and Octavian Nothing. Satie The Serpent Came to Gloucester and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. His picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked Strange Mr. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anderson), (1968- ) is an author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults.

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