By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?
Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?
Though he lives in the
small town of Gentry, Mackie comes from a world of tunnels and black,
murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattoed
princess. He is a replacement - left in the crib of a human baby sixteen
years ago when it was stolen away by the fey. Now, because of fatal
allergies to iron, blood and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying
in the human world. Mackie would give anything just to be normal, to
live quietly amongst humans, practice his bass guitar and spend time
with his crush, Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie
is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem,
where he must face down the dark creatures and find his rightful place -
in our world, or theirs.
5 comments:
interesante cartile, mai ales prima
The replacement imi pare interesanta.
Uuuu.... The Replacement are new cover. Imi placea si prima coperta. E inca pe lista mea TBR, ma asteapta cuminte pe Kindle. :)
Asta este coperta UK, este cea cu pretul apetisant :D. adica asta veti primi daca va comandati.
Am reusit sa le iau si eu :D Yeeey!
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