Many years later, thanks to technology, many people will be able to live without fear of disease. One generation after that, our lifespans will be dramatically decreased. With males' lifespan of 25 years and females' at 20 years. When the years are over, you die. Yep, just like that.
Rhine is sixteen, which means she has four years left. She was kidnapped, along with other teenage girls, to be sold to rich families for pregnancy and children. When she became a bride, she vowed to do everything she could to escape, to go back to her twin brother. Her husband, Linden, has fallen hopelessly in love with her, and she couldn't bring herself to hate him as much as she wanted to. She became glued to her two 'sister wives' and the wealth and luxury this marriage offered.
Her father-in-law, an eccentric scientist hoping to find the cure to their short lifespan, is storing corpses in the basement, and her sister wives are not always lovable.
Along with Gabriel, a servant she has fallen in love with, they attempt to escape before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world of orphans, poverty, and crime, is there any hope for them?
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