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From the authors of “Sanctuary” comes a haunting near-future companion tale about migrants subjected to deadly experiments in a government labor camp and the four courageous rebels who set into place a daring plan to liberate them.
The year is 2033, and in this near-future America where undocumented people are forced into labor camps, life is bleak. Especially so for seventeen-year-old Wendy, a Vietnamese teenager from Chicago. When she and her mother were taken from their pharmacy five months ago, they were given the brutal job of digging in the labor camp's mine searching for the destructive and toxic, but potentially world-changing mineral, aquilinium. With this mineral the corrupt and xenophobic government of the New American Republic could actually control the weather-ending devastating droughts sweeping the planet due to climate change. If the government succeeds, other countries would be at their mercy. Solidifying this power comes at the expense of the undocumented migrants forced to endure horrendous conditions to mine the mineral or used in cruel experiments to test it, leaving their bodies wracked in extreme pain to the point of death. As the experiments ramp up, things only get worse. Wendy and her fellow prisoners decide to escape; if they don't, they know they will die.
Told by four narrators-Wendy, Jess (a former teenage Deportation Force officer), Vali, and Vali's mother Liliana-Solis, is about the courage and sacrifice it takes to stand and fight for freedom.
The year is 2033, and in this near-future America where undocumented people are forced into labor camps, life is bleak. Especially so for seventeen-year-old Wendy, a Vietnamese teenager from Chicago. When she and her mother were taken from their pharmacy five months ago, they were given the brutal job of digging in the labor camp's mine searching for the destructive and toxic, but potentially world-changing mineral, aquilinium. With this mineral the corrupt and xenophobic government of the New American Republic could actually control the weather-ending devastating droughts sweeping the planet due to climate change. If the government succeeds, other countries would be at their mercy. Solidifying this power comes at the expense of the undocumented migrants forced to endure horrendous conditions to mine the mineral or used in cruel experiments to test it, leaving their bodies wracked in extreme pain to the point of death. As the experiments ramp up, things only get worse. Wendy and her fellow prisoners decide to escape; if they don't, they know they will die.
Told by four narrators-Wendy, Jess (a former teenage Deportation Force officer), Vali, and Vali's mother Liliana-Solis, is about the courage and sacrifice it takes to stand and fight for freedom.