"In a world where the familiar has sinister undertones, two friends are torn apart just when they need one another most ... Marivic Stone lives in a small world, and that's fine with her. Home is with her beloved grandfather in a small town that just happens to be famous for a medical discovery that saved humankind -- though not without significant repercussions. Marivic loves her best friend, Saren, and the two of them promise to stick together, through thick and thin, and especially through theun certain winnowing procedure, a now inevitable -- but dangerous -- part of adolescence.But when tragedy separates the two friends, Marivic is thrust into a world of conspiracy, rebellion and revolution"--Provided by publisher.
"In a world where the familiar has sinister undertones, two friends are torn apart just when they need one another most ... Marivic Stone lives in a small world, and that's fine with her. Home is with her beloved grandfather in a small town that just happens to be famous for a medical discovery that saved humankind -- though not without significant repercussions. Marivic loves her best friend, Saren, and the two of them promise to stick together, through thick and thin, and especially through theun certain winnowing procedure, a now inevitable -- but dangerous -- part of adolescence.But when tragedy separates the two friends, Marivic is thrust into a world of conspiracy, rebellion and revolution"--Provided by publisher.
