The Forever Ones by Marjorie DeLuca
GENRE: Science Fiction, Dystopia
Paige is a forever, genetically altered to stay nineteen forever and live in the secret Iduna Corp compound, a place where age reversal and immortality has been perfected. Forevers are told to to live for the moment.. Be what you want to be for a while and when you get sick of it – be something else.But when her friends start disappearing Paige suspects there’s a darker side to their luxurious prison. The official word is they’ve been kidnapped by criminals on the outside who want to use them as feeders. Feeders have a short and brutal life – kept in captivity and sucked dry of all their youth cells so the Crime Lords can enjoy eternal youth.Her friend Junius involves her in planning a daring escape from the compound so they can infiltrate the IdunaCorp organization and find out what’s really happening to their missing friends. They’re joined by the charismatic and musical Chale, a Keener whose attraction to Paige causes tension between her and Junius.
What will they find on the outside? How has the quest for immortality changed humanity? The journey becomes so dangerous Paige is forced to push herself to the limits of her endurance and to make tough decisions about who she can trust – Junius or Chale.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marjorie DeLuca spent her childhood in the ancient cathedral city of
Durham in North-Eastern England. She attended the University of London, became
a teacher, and then immigrated to Canada where she lives with her husband and
two children. There she also studied writing under her mentor, Pulitzer Prize
winning author, Carol Shields. Though she loves writing sci-fi for teens, she
also writes historical fiction.
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