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Armstrong, Kelley Gathering Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a link between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals,

and the strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2011).

Bacigalupi, Paolo The Drowned Cities In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands

of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Bacigalupi, Paolo Ship Breaker In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2010).

Bloor, Edward Taken In 2036, kidnapping rich children has become a lucrative industry. When 13-year-old Charity Meyers

is taken and held for ransom, she is confident from her kidnapping training that if she just remains calm, her parents will pay the ransom in the prescribed 24 hours and she will be

freed. (Summary from Mackin online, January 2008)

Bachorz, Pam Drought Ruby Prosser longs for escape from the Congregation and the early-nineteenth-century lifestyle the community practices, even though she knows the Congregants need her blood to survive, but when she meets Ford, the new Overseer, who holds the promise to access to the modern world, her will to stay weakens. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2011).

Choldenko, Gennifer No Passengers Beyond This Point With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with

an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time. Summary from Follett Destiny, 2011)

Collins, Suzanne Catching Fire By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2009).

Young Adult Science Fiction Book List

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Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one

another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place. (Summary from loc.gov, Sept. 2008)

Collins, Suzanne Mockingjay Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2010).

Condie, Ally Matched Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a

second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves. (Summary from Follett Destiny, April 2012)

Crewe, Megan The Way We Fall Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community. (Summary from Follett Destiny, March 2012).

Dashner, James The Maze Runner Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community

in which he finds himself if he is to escape. (Summary from www.titlewave.com, November 2009).

DeStefano, Lauren Perfect River Internment chronicles: Book 1 Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2013).

DeStefano, Lauren Wither Chemical Garden Trilogy; Book 1 After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five

and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2011).

Destefano, Lauren Fever Chemical Garden Trilogy; Book 2 In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother. (Summary from Follett Destiny, April 2012).

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Destefano, Lauren Sever Chemical Garden Trilogy; Book 3 After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb

with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Driza, Debra Mila 2.0 Sixteen-year-old Mila discovers she is not who--or what--she thought she was, which causes her to run from both the CIA and a rogue intelligence group.

Driza, Debra Renegade Sequel to Milo 2.0 Mila is back on the run--this time with potential boyfriend Hunter by

her side. As they search for a man who might know more about her mysterious past, Mila must rely on her android abilities to protect them from the people who want her dead. Embracing her identity as a machine leads her to question the state of her humanity, as well as Hunter's true intentions. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

Farmer, Nancy The House of Scorpion In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire

nestled between Mexico and the United States. (Summary from Hennepin County Library Jan. 2005)

Haddix, Margaret Peterson Among the Hidden

In a society where family size is strictly limited to two children, Luke is a third child. Living in an attic bedroom to avoid being seen by authorities, Luke peers through an outside vent and observes another “shadow child”

hiding in a nearby home. He begins a secret friendship with Jen, who plans to rebel against the government system.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson Turnabout At the end of the 20th century, a group of nursing home residents is given an experimental injection that reverses aging. Throughout the next century, Melly and Anny and Beth grow progressively younger until—as teenagers in 2085—they face the prospect of reverting to childhood, then infancy.

Hagen, Bethany Landry Park

In a futuristic, fractured United States where the

oppressed Rootless handle the raw nuclear material that powers the Gentry's lavish lifestyle, seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry must choose between taking over her father's vast estate or rebelling against everything she has ever known, in the name of justice. . (Summary from Follett Destiny, January, 2015).

Hale, Shannon Dangerous When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp

students get the opportunity to do something

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amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved. . (Summary from Follett Destiny, December, 2014).

Hautman, Pete Hole in the Sky In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon

from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors. (Summary from Library of Congress, 2004)

Hautman, Peter Rash In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork. (Summary from hclib.com, 2006)

Howey, Hugh Wool In a toxic world, a community lives underground, when Sheriff Holston asks to leave and go outside, mechanic Juliette is

appointed as the new sheriff and learns how badly her world is broken. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Khoury, Jessica Origins Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest and is genetically engineered to be immortal and be the future of the human race, but on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that

surrounds her sterile home and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2013).

\Khoury, Jessica Vitro

On a remote island in the Pacific,

scientists created the Vitros, made in test tubes and given superhuman knowledge and abilities. Seventeen-year-old Sophie travels to the island searching for her mother, and discovers she has a Vitro twin who needs her protection. (Summary from Follett Destiny, December 2014).

Kittredge, Caitlin The Iron Thorn In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at

sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2011).

Landers, Melissa Alienated High school senior Cara Sweeney gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to participate in

earth's first intergalactic high school exchange program. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

Layne, Steven This Side of Paradise The story is told in a wry contemporary voice by high-school junior Jack, who joins with his rebellious grandmother

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and resists his dad's plans to force the family into Paradise. What must Dad do to make them fit in there? (Summary from Amazon.com, Oct. 2004).

Lo, Malinda Adaption In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David,

receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January, 2013).

Logue, Mary Dancing with an Alien A teenage boy from outer space travels to earth on a mission to help save his planet, and ultimately he falls in love, causing his mission to fail. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2009).

London, Alex Guardian Sequel to Proxy

The only way to stop people from getting

sick is to get the network back online. That means reversing the very revolution that Syd and Knox began. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

London, Alex Proxy Privileged teenager Sid has a proxy, Knox, who receives punishment for Syd's wrong doings, when Syd kills one of his

friends in a car crash, it is Knox who is sentenced to death. When the two boys realize they must work together to beat the

system they flee looking for answers. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

Lore, Pittacus I am Number Four In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to

develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien. (Summary from Follett Destiny, 2011).

Lowry, Lois The Giver The story takes place in a nameless, utopian community, at an unidentified future time. Although life seems perfect—there is no hunger, no disease, no pollution, no fear—the reader becomes uneasily aware all is not well. The theme of balancing the values of freedom and security is beautifully presented.

Lu, Marie Legend In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and

prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. (Summary from Follett Destiny, April 2012)

Lu, Marie Prodigy June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot

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against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Meyer, Marissa Cinder As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg,

becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2013).

Meyer Marissa Scarlett Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Meyer, Marissa Cress Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they are plotting

to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who has only ever had her netscreens as company. (Summary from Follett Destiny, December 2014).

Meyer, Stephenie The Host Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer,

convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial

invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2009).

Michaels, Rune Genesis Alpha When thirteen-year-old Josh's beloved older brother, Max, is arrested for murder, the victim's sister leads Josh to evidence of

Max's guilt--and her own--hidden in their favorite online role-playing game and Josh, who was conceived to save Max's life years earlier, must consider whether he shares that guilt. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2009)

Gardner, Sally Maggot Moon Friendship and trust inspire Standish to rise up against an oppressive regime and expose the truth about a planned moon landing. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Mullin, Michael Ashfall After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished. (Summary from Follett Destiny, April 2012).

Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when

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he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2010).

O’Brien, Caragn Birthmarked Birthmarked Trilogy; Bk. 1 Sixteen-year-old Gaia and her mother faithfully deliver their quota of three infants every

month to the Enclave but when her mother is imprisoned by the very ones they have been so loyal to, Gaia begins to question their motives and risks her life to save her mother. (Summary from Follett Destiny, April 2012).

O’Brien, Caragn Prized Birthmarked Trilogy; Bk. 2 Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2013).

O’Brien, Caragn Promised Birthmarked Trilogy; Bk. 3 Gaia succeeds in leading her people to Wharfton and the Enclave, but rebellion there

threatens them all just when everything they have dreamed of seems to be at hand. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2013).

O’Brien, Caragn The Vault of Dreams

Rosie Sinclair, who attends an elite arts

school where students are contestants on a high

stakes reality show, skips her sleeping pill one night and discovers that the school is really a cover-up for the lucrative and sinister practice of dream harvesting. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

Oliver, Lauren Delirium Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. (Summary from Follett Destiny, 2011).

Oliver, Lauren Pandemonium After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"-

-an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love--but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love.

Oliver, Lauren Requiem While Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Patrick, Cat The Originals Seventeen-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsy Best are clones, raised as identical triplets by their surrogate mother but living as her

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one daughter, Elizabeth, until their separate abilities and a romantic relationship force a change. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Patrick, Cat Revived After dying in a bus crash, Daisy Appleby is brought back to life thanks to a drug called Revive. Now a member of a government program that tests the drug, Daisy has been Revived five times and is forced to change her identity each time. When her desire for a normal life becomes too much, however, she fights to break free of the experiment that may have a much farther reach than she ever imagined.

Pearson, Mary The Adoration of Jenna Fox In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a

seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. (Summary from Hennepin County, Sept. 2008)

Pullman, Philip The Golden Compass In Lyra’s world, similar to our own but with some important differences, each human has a daemon—an animal familiar with whom one’s life and destiny are entwined. Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, have a great destiny in this sweeping, suspenseful fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy.

Pullman, Philip The Subtle Knife As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a

powerful, magical knife. Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2009.

Pullman, Philip The Amber Spyglass The conclusion to Pullman’s trilogy delivers much of what was promised in the preceding cliffhangers. Most of the characters—beloved, bedeviled or both—return to continue their fateful roles.

O’Brien, Caragh Prized Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor

to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again. Summary from Follett Destiny, December 2012).

Reich, Kathy Virals Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan goes to live with her dad, a marine biologist whom Tory has never known. Tory tries

to adjust to her new life by making friends with a group of kids who are also science geeks. When the friends rescue a stray wolfdog pup from a top-secret lab, they are exposed to a rare canine parvovirus that alters their DNA. Now with canine sense and reflexes, they are called upon to solve a murder. (Summary from Follett Destiny, December 2014).

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Roberts, Jeyn The Bodies We Wear

After a powerful new drug causes havoc

and deadly addiction, seventeen-year-old Faye trains to take revenge on those who took her future and murdered the boy she loved. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

Roth, Veronica Allegiant The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles

and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

Roth, Veronica Divergent In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2011).

Roth, Veronica Insurgent As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she

loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Rubinstein, Gillian Galax-Arena

Kidnapped from an Australian train station, Joella, Peter and Liane are taken on a rocket to the Galax-Arena, where children stolen from Earth perform death-defying stunts for the amusement of the planet

Vexak’s inhabitants. (Summary from NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.)

Ryan, Carrie The Forest of Hands and Teeth Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2009)

Saxon, Lucy Take Back the Skies

To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenaged Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015).

Shepard, Megan Her Dark Curiosity A Madman’s Daughter novel Back in London after escaping from her father's island and the

secrets she left behind, Juliet Moreau strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness. (Follett Destiny, October 2014)

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Shusterman, Neal The Dark Side of Nowhere Clued in by the mysterious death of a classmate, Jason begins to suspect all is not what it seems in his boring small-town existence and ever-pleasant family life. It turns out his family and many of the other folks in town are aliens, the advance guard of a conquering race.

Simmons, Kristen Article 5 Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller, living in a world in which the Bill of Rights has been revoked, is able to keep a low profile until

her mother is arrested for noncompliance and she realizes the officer responsible is her first love, Chase Jennings. (Summary from Follett Destiny, December 2012).

Stahler Jr., David Truesight In his debut novel, Stahler vividly imagines a future where genetic engineering has taken a startling turn. In a utopian community of the blind, one remarkable young man will discover just how much there is to see--if only he is willing to look.

Stewart, Trenton Lee The Mysterious Benedict Society

After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no

rules. (Summary from Hennepin County, Sept. 2008)

Stohl, Margaret Icons After an alien force known as the Icon colonizes Earth, decimating humanity, four surviving teenagers must piece together the

mysteries of their pasts--in order to save the future. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2013).

Vande Velde, Vivian Heir Apparent While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.

Walker, Karen Age of Miracles Julia struggles as she comes of age when she learns, along with the rest of the world, that the Earth has begun to slow its

rotation, drastically changing gravity and the environment. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2013).

Robin Wasserman The Waking Dark After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander,

Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected. Only the 5 witnesses of the murders retain their sound minds, and must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it. (Follett Destiny, October 2014).

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Waugh, Sylvia Space Race Despite the title, the story of the lunar landing is not the sole focus of this overbroad survey. The book also touches briefly and rather superficially on topics such as extraterrestrial visitors, the space shuttle Challenger disaster and interplanetary exploration. A time line is included.

Werlin, Nancy Double Helix Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. (Summary from Library of Congress)

White, Andrea Surviving Antarctica: Realty TV 2083 In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to

continue their educations reenact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee. (Summary from Mackin.com, 2006)

Wells, Robison Variant After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

Yancy, Rick The 5th Wave Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be

one of them. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Young, Moira Blood Red Road Dustlands; Book 1 In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2011).

Young, Moira Rebel Heart After rescuing her twin brother from the Tonton, Saba experiences disturbing telepathic visions while being hunted by a

cunning enemy. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October 2013).

Young, Suzanne The Program When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October, 2013).

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Zevin, Gabrielle All These Things I’ve Done Anya Balanchine, daughter of New York City's most notorious crime boss in 2083, tries to keep a low profile, but she cannot

avoid the spotlight when her loser ex-boyfriend is accidently poisoned by illegal chocolate manufactured by her family. (Summary from Follett, November 2011).