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An Indie Next Pick!Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at least as normal as any girls life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed fifty million American women ten years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces. The death threat is past, but fathers still fear for their daughters safety, and the Paternalist Movement, begun to protect young women, is taking over the choices they make.Like all her friends, Avie still mourns the loss of her mother, but shes also dreaming about college and love and what shell make of her life. When her dad contracts her to marry a rich, older man to raise money to save his struggling company, her life suddenly narrows to two choices Be trapped in a marriage with a controlling politician, or run.
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Catherine Linka is happiest on a mountain trail, the deck of a ship, or behind her laptop. An art lover, she's pretty good at pencil drawing, but even better at painting with words. Catherine doesn't believe in fate, but she did fall in love with her husband on their first date when he laced up her boots after she broke her hand.
