![]() ![]() She wishes to rescue Gracelyn, her brilliant younger sister. Evie finds this new world frighteningly unsafe at first but soon questions what she’s been taught, finding her place (and a boyfriend) in the community. Still somehow alive after taking her suicide pill, she’s smuggled away for a second try but is saved at the last minute by Kinlee, a girl who leads her to a forest camp of Directorate-defying rebels. ![]() Most will live into their hundreds, but not Evalee “Evie” Henders-she is scheduled to depart at 17 years old. All citizens bear a “departure date” inked onto their wrists, the day they must die (to avoid suffering) as predicted by Directorate technology. ![]() In the future, after devastating wars and climate change have left the planet a toxic ruin, the Directorate emerges to provide safety and guidance for its people. On the day she’s supposed to die, a teenager escapes her tightly controlled community in this YA SF novel. ![]()
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