A futuristic thriller that pits teens against teens.
Can they outlive it?.
Life is short.
The world is crumbling around them, and their time is running out.
Forced to leave, Jemma and Apple are joined in exile by a mysterious boy who claims to know what is causing them to die.
But Jemma\'s connection to a boy named Apple is stronger than her duty as a Mama.
Survival has eclipsed love ever since the Parents died of a mysterious plague.
Making babies is how her people survive--in Jemma\'s world, life ends at age seventeen.
Now she\'s a teen, and old enough to become a Mama.
Jemma has spent her life scavenging tools and supplies in her tribe\'s small enclave outside what used to be a big city.
A futuristic thriller that pits teens against teens
