Sixteen year old Aine lives in the Colony, and his whole life was decided before he was born. In two years he will marry the girl next door, Brin, who was assigned as his Other at birth. Then he will be given a position in the Colony's workforce that best suits his talents. Each night he takes four pills, like everyone else in the Colony, and he knows the pills keep them safe and their world in order. Everything is fine. Perfect, in fact. Until Aine accidentally drops one of his pills. Terrified, he tries to hide the mistake, but when he dreams for the first time in his life, he discovers all he's been missing. What scares him more than not taking the pill, though, is how alive his dreams make him feel. Because it isn't Brin he dreams of but his best friend Kyer. Another boy. Suddenly Aine's world turns upside down, and he doesn't know what to think or who to trust. All he knows for sure is he's falling in love with Kyer, which is forbidden by the Colony's Code, and he will do anything to protect their budding relationship. Even if it means defying the Overseer and leaving the Colony behind.

The Colony Book 1: Rebellion

“Maybe when I’m Overseer, I’ll change that,” I joked.


She laughed and snuggled against me. “Oh, so you want to be Overseer now.”


I didn’t respond. Out the window, everything blended together in a dirty shade of light gray—the sky, the concrete wall hemming in the monorail track, the faint glimpse of the white-capped waves I could see beyond the wall. I needed a place Kyer and I could retreat to, out of sight of the screens, away from the Monitors, beyond the reach of the Officers. Somewhere all our own…


On the other side of the monorail track, away from the Colony. That might work.


Chapter 34