Description:
“Deuce’s whole world has changed. Now living topside in a
community called Salvation, she has a whole new set of problems. Down below,
she was considered an adult, and she contributed to the whole. Now, topside,
the people of Salvation think she’s a brat in need of training. She hates
school, and she doesn’t fit in with the other girls. They’ve spent their lives
learning to cook and sew–suitable woman’s work. Deuce only knows how to fight.
To make matters worse, Fade keeps her at a distance, and the band of four has
broken into fragments.
Stalker presses for a closer relationship,
but Deuce sees him as a training partner, and she’s busy trying to find her
place in Salvation. She refuses to accept that she’s wrong for being who she
is, but tensions rise as she struggles against the status quo. Her feelings for
Fade haven’t changed, but he seems not to want her around anymore. Confused and
lonely, she starts looking for a way out.
Once she’s free from school for the year,
Deuce pursues a chance to serve in the summer patrols–those responsible for
making sure the growers and planters can work the fields without danger of
Freak attack. It should have been routine, little fighting, but things have
been changing on surface, just as they did below ground. The Freaks are
smarter. They’re watching. Waiting. Planning. The monsters don’t intend to let
Salvation survive, and it will take a girl like Deuce to turn the tide.”
-Shelfari
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