Rhine remembers an attempted kidnapping years before when her brother shot and killed an intruder. Many references to cadavers in a basement laboratory used for study. A virus kills women when they're 20 and men at 25 details are given of two women's deaths with coughing up blood and fevers. The remaining girls are knocked out by gas and needles. Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday.A few instances of jarring violence - teen girls are kidnapped and gunshots are heard in the distance as 13 unwanted girls are shot. 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 has no way to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husbands strange world is what it seems.
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. Yet her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine cant bring herself to hate him as much as shed like to. When Rhine is sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape.
Geneticists seek 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. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years, and females a lifespan of 20 years-leaving the world in a state of panic.
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. What if you knew exactly when youd die? The first book of The Chemical Garden Trilogy.
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