Promised (38 page)

“No problem.”

The bell rang, and around us, students shuffled up with their backpacks and turned off their computers. I hadn't finished my synching exercise. I wasn't sure if I'd ever be back to complete it.

 

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Copyright © 2012 by Caragh M. O'Brien

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

O'Brien, Caragh M.

Promised / Caragh M. O'Brien. — 1st ed.

      p. cm. — (The birthmarked trilogy; bk. 3)

Summary: 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.

ISBN 978-1-59643-571-1 (hardcover)

  [1.  Midwives—Fiction.   2.  Sisters—Fiction.   3.  Survival—Fiction.   4.  Genetic engineering—Fiction.   5.  Parents—Fiction.   6.  Science fiction.]   I.  Title.

PZ7.O12673Pro 2012

[Fic]—dc23             2011047115

eISBN 9781596438323

First hardcover edition, 2012

eBook edition, October 2012