But their relationship is closer than Cora can imagine. He knew of Cora on Earth since she is a senator's daughter. Cora soon meets the Caretaker - Cassian - who explains what is required of them and befriends Cora.The kids are paired up and Cora's partner is Lucky. They are being experimented on by aliens called the Kindred. All of the others have also been snatched from their lives and put in the habitat too.

Her last memory is of riding with her brother to a resort to meet with their parents. Can Cora manage to save herself and her companions? And if so.what world lies beyond the walls of their cage?Ĭora awakens to find herself in a habitat with some other teens her age. When a forbidden attraction develops between Cora and Cassian, she realizes that her best chance of escape might be in the arms of her own jailer-though that would mean leaving the others behind. And they have taken the five teenagers to an otherworldly zoo-where the exhibits are humans. But when their mysterious jailer appears-a handsome young guard called Cassian-they realize that their captivity is more terrifying than they could ever imagine: Their abductors aren't from Earth. As the unlikely group struggles for leadership, they slowly start to trust each other. None of them have a clue as to what happened, and all of them have secrets. And she isn't alone.įour other teenagers have also been taken: a beautiful model, a tattooed smuggler, a secretive genius, and an army brat who seems to know too much about Cora's past. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments-tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle-and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures and time periods, all watched over by eerie black windows. When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn't know where she is or who put her there.

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