Having escaped torment at Vaughn’s mansion, she finds respite in the dilapidated home of her husband’s uncle, an eccentric inventor who hates Vaughn almost as much as Rhine does. With less than three years left until the virus claims her life, Rhine is desperate for answers. 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. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With the help of Gabriel, a servant she is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to break free, in what little time she has left.įEVER: 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. Sever: Book 3 (The Chemical Garden) by Lauren DeStefano at .uk - ISBN 10: 0007387024 - ISBN 13: 9780007387021 - HarperVoyager - 2014 - Softcover. Even though he is kind to her, Rhine is desperate to escape her gilded cage.

In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out…ġ6-year-old Rhine Ellery is kidnapped and sold as a bride to Linden, a rich young man with a dying wife. Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb – males only live to age twenty-five and females only live to age twenty.

WITHER: What if you knew exactly when you would die? This bundle includes Wither, Fever, and Sever. Lauren DeStefano’s complete, breathtaking, dystopian romance series, The Chemical Garden Trilogy.

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