Identified as being the governor’s daughter, Zaila is brought back to the scavengers’ base in a city occupied by both the dead and their living sympathizers. Joined by Pax Muldoon, her only friend, the pair are ambushed by a group of scavengers. In search of food and other supplies, Zaila takes it upon herself to secretly venture outside her colony’s walls. Starvation seems imminent, and a war between the living and the dead over much-needed provisions looms on the horizon. As the daughter of the unpopular governor, she is the target of resentment, especially now that resources are becoming more scarce, since all trade between the colonies has been interrupted by a group marauders. Isolation from the world that extends both outside and inside her colony. Over time, those cities were replaced with colonies overseen by governors to keep order.Īt seventeen, Zaila Lockhart has only known isolation. Their families, friends, and neighbors, having grown to fear them, erected walls around their cities to keep them out. Rejected as being nothing more than imposters of the living, the dead are shunned by society. At the time, it seemed too good to be true, never having to lose anyone to illness or time, and maybe it was. The year is 2111, and scientists have discovered how to cheat death by extracting memories, thoughts, and personality traits from the dying, methodically implanting them into artificial bodies.

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The Windfarmer by Chris Wichtendahl