Fever

By Lauren DeStefano

Book #2 in the The Chemical Garden Trilogy series

Escaping captivity, Rhine faces new dangers and a relentless pursuer. Will she find safety or lose everything?

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341 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Rhine Ellery escapes a stifling marriage only to fall into a sinister carnival's trap. With Gabriel, she journeys through a bleak world, desperate to reach her brother in Manhattan. Time is running out as they evade Rhine's relentless father-in-law, Vaughn, who will stop at nothing to reclaim her. In a world where life is fleeting, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the ultimate price. Can she find safety, or will her past catch up with her?

From the publisher

For 17-year-old Rhine Ellery, a daring escape from a suffocating polygamous marriage is only the beginning… Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness. The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion…by any means necessary. In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever.

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