Offered

Pair up or be Tithed! Two things are ever certain in Ironcross: the beasts outside the wall and the Tithe. When Senna Rhys turns eighteen, she must go through the Tithe, a rite of passage to adulthood and a selection process that claims ten souls for the treaty with the wall. The unpaired are chosen first-securing the next generation to supply the Tithe is the foundation of Ironcross's survival. There's Gabriel, the gorgeous boy next door with blue, blue eyes. He's been my best friend since forever. He's the keeper of my heart. There's Kane, arrogant and self-assured and darkly beautiful. He wants everything but my heart and has an irritating habit of catching me when I fall. There's Ironcross. The wall that keeps the beasts out. The fear that keeps us in. The Alders who rule with ruthless clarity. Above all else, there's the Tithe. The pact and sacrifice and pairings that bind our world.

After the Tithe: the beasts and the offered. Within the walls of Ironcross, the Tithed are revered, honored, loved. We will live on forever. That's what the Alders tell us. Beyond the walls, we are hunted and imprisoned. If our blood is silk to these monsters, then we are the silkworms, trapped in our gilded cage, crushed beneath their imperial boot, easily replaced. We survive one day at a time, knowing it may be our last. Love cost Senna everything. Her heart is stitched together with scars and callouses. But will that be enough to survive what comes next? Is merely surviving enough?

They took too much from me. Now I will burn their world to the ground. The final book in The Offered series. They broke me, stole my will to live. I survived. I'm put back together from the pieces they took and now surviving is no longer enough. Love is not enough. There's a darkness growing in me that demands vengeance. Rust is a post-apocalyptic romance and adventure with some disturbing themes set in a dark, dystopian world.