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By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
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Title: Wither: Book One of the Chemical Garden
Author(s): Lauren DeStefano
ISBN: 0-00-742545-7 / 978-0-00-742545-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Voyager
Availability: Amazon UK
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July 2011 : USA Audio edition

Title: Wither: The Chemical Garden Trilogy
Author(s): Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon
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Title: Wither: The Chemical Garden Trilogy
Author(s): Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon CA
2011 : USA Audio CD

Title: Wither
Author(s): Lauren DeStefano
ISBN: 1-4561-2057-3 / 978-1-4561-2057-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon
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August 2011 : Australia, UK Kindle edition
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