Searchers (The Recycled Earth #1)

Year 998 P.E. (Post Earth)

A thousand years ago, humans destroyed the Earth.

Dead. No life. Gone.

We now live in thirteen Arks orbiting the dead planet, hoping it will someday recover and support life once more.

Life is regimented, predictable, and controlled. Personal freedoms are a long-lost memory, but survival of the species is paramount.

At the age of eighteen, everyone goes through Selection. Assigned a job and a life-partner, each new couple must produce a child in their first year of marriage, and exactly one more after that.

One point three million people are all that is left of the human race, one hundred thousand per Ark. No more, no less, closed loop, until the Searchers find us a new home.

However, what should have been a standard Selection was anything but. Miya soon fears for her life when she discovers that things are not as they seem, and people are disappearing…