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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

DeStefano, Lauren.

Sever / Lauren DeStefano.

p. cm. —  (The Chemical Garden trilogy ; bk. 3)

Summary: 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.

ISBN 978-1-4424-0909-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

[1. Science fiction. 2. Genetic engineering—Fiction. 3. Survival—Fiction. 4. Orphans—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.D47Se 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2012015702

ISBN 978-1-4424-0913-2 (eBook)