Just one perfect generation. Perfect babies. Perfect health. Perfect super-long lives. American scientists in the 21st century gave civilization just what it wanted…and then left humanity with a genetic time bomb.
Now every woman dies by the time she is twenty. Every man dies by the time he is twenty-five. War has destroyed all the other continents, a virus runs rampant and everyone's life is just a short brutal struggle. Except for that
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first generation, who lived fabulously wealthy, healthy long lives.
Girls are just considered breeding stock. Jenna, Cecily, and Rhine are not surprised when they are kidnapped by Gatherers to be sold as polygamous “brides” for the wealthy. In this case, they end up in Florida, brides of Governor Linden Ashley. Pampered but imprisoned, naïve Cecily is delighted with her new role, and jaded Jenna is resigned to her situation, but Rhine
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