Chapter 1 - The Reformatory

Set in the distant future in an alternate world, where the privileged are all powerful and the disadvantaged struggle to survive, seventeen year old Allie will do anything to save her brother from a fate worse than death.

Allie did something wrong, she defied the laws of the Govern but now her brother must suffer the punishment that was meant for her - Bleaching and being transported to the Colony in the Other World.

Unable to face the cruelty of his sentence and her part in it, Allie decides to save him. But how can she make this possible with the lingering attention of an ex-boyfriend, who happens to be a member of an elite security force and with not a single person, in her world or the Other, whom she can trust?