(YA F Dest)
358 pages 2011 Science Fiction
Nearly a century ago, science created a perfect generation free from disease and premature death. Every generation following has been cursed with a virus that kills females at 20 and males at 25. When sixteen-year-old Rhine is kidnapped and sold into a polygamous marriage, she dreams only of escape. Her new husband is wealthy and gentle, but her new father-in-law, a member of that one perfect generation, is a terrifying and sinister geneticist. Rhine soon realizes in order to gain her freedom she must use her cunning to become the favorite wife and daughter-in-law. (Grades 9 & up)
Reviewed by Teen Librarian Sara H.
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