Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. This science fiction novel by Lauren DeStefano is the first in the Chemical Garden series published by Simon & Schuster BFYR, a trademark of Simon. Will Rhine be able to escape-before her time runs out? The Free Books Online Wither (The Chemical Garden 1)(38),Update the latest books every day Wither (The Chemical Garden 1)(38),online free book Wither (The. Wither (Chemical Garden Series 1) by Lauren DeStefano 4.4 (594) Paperback (Reprint) 13.99 Paperback 13.99 eBook 10.99 Audiobook 0.00 View All Available Formats & Editions Ship This Item Qualifies for Free Shipping Checking availability for Buy Online, Pick up in Store. 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.

Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. 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. 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, because he is unaware. When Rhine is kidnapped trying to find a job and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. 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.

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. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb.

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. Wither, Fever, Sever the chemical garden trilogy - Lauren Destefano.

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