Nerdy Book Box Young Adult Dystopian Box – The Markings

This book box contains so many goodies! The first book in The Markings Trilogy by indie author Catherine Downen (pictured) with signed name plate, bookmark, mini journal, key earrings, exclusive artwork and wooden pin. Fantastic gift for the fantasy loving YA reader in your life!

SYNOPSIS

Destined for a life in a prison cell, a future is something Adaline never dreamed of. On dystopian Hawaii, a tyrant king hunts the gifted - an elite group of citizens with an enhanced sense of sight, hearing, taste, touch, or smell - and brainwashes them to serve in his army, using their powers for his own gain. Adaline has spent the last seven years in prison due to her family's misfortune, placing her amongst a small piece of society that the world outside of these cement walls has forgotten about. Until the night her gift presents itself, and now Adaline is no longer a scrawny prisoner, but a valuable asset to the king. Adaline's life is not a matter of life or death, but freedom or enslavement. Knowing her only chance to survive is to flee the king and his gifted army, Adaline escapes from her prison cell and runs for her life.

Aided by her best friend and one of the king's own ex-officers, Adaline attempts to locate a place where she won't be found. Instead, she uncovers a family secret her father orchestrated, and suddenly her isolated placement in that prison cell doesn't seem all that coincidental, the friends who travel with her aren't there by mere luck, and it begs the question of how much of her life has been foreseen, and what will her future hold?