Books with author Laura Frances

The second installment of three in the Slave series by Laura Frances.After escaping execution, Hannah finds herself where she's always wanted to be...outside the valley of slaves. But the relief doesn't last, not when the rest of her people are still suffering. It's time to return. With the promise of help coming and the strength of new comrades, Hannah and Cash cross the mountains to rejoin the revolution. But winter has come, and the situation has only grown darker. The Outcasts are dying. The rebels are losing ground. With limited time, the rebel soldiers must hurry to try to convince more Watchers to renounce the Council's authority before the South arrives to take back their people.

Workers silently shuffle to their assigned posts. Outcasts watch from the alley walls. On every corner, a Watcher stands stone-faced, rifle in hand. Nineteen-year-old Hannah exists in a gray, smog-covered world of labor and fear, where sunlight and stars are stories whispered in secret. She survives on the memories left by her parents, reliving the moment they were dragged from their family unit and shot. Everything changes the night the valley erupts in explosions and gunfire. Edan, a young soldier in disguise, pulls Hannah from her unit and rushes her down to the streets. Surrounded by dozens of terrified slaves, she's told to run. Run as hard and as fast as you can and don't stop! Hannah's world turns upside down. Now the enemy fights for her freedom, and she must struggle to shake loose from fear-conditioning and to forgive men who inflicted terror on her people. For the sake of freedom, she has no choice.

BOOK THREE OF THE SLAVE SERIES Forces have assembled to destroy the slave system of the valley once and for all, but the Council will not go quietly. As plans are laid to cripple the enemy's pending assault, Titus Gray takes aim at his son, sowing distrust among the rebels. In this final installment of the Slave Series, Hannah works desperately to protect and inspire the Workers, even as the world they've grown up in erupts in flames.

The second installment of three in the Slave series by Laura Frances.After escaping execution, Hannah finds herself where she's always wanted to be...outside the valley of slaves. But the relief doesn't last, not when the rest of her people are still suffering. It's time to return. With the promise of help coming and the strength of new comrades, Hannah and Cash cross the mountains to rejoin the revolution. But winter has come, and the situation has only grown darker. The Outcasts are dying. The rebels are losing ground. With limited time, the rebel soldiers must hurry to try to convince more Watchers to renounce the Council's authority before the South arrives to take back their people.

A short story."Breathe, Hannah. In the nose. Out the mouth. Remember," Father said, "they need us."More than twenty years before Edan rushed Hannah into a revolution she wasn't ready for...Before the moon and stars and the Watcher...There was Jonathan, and there was Esma. This is their story. Tensions rise in the valley as new, unwarranted laws mean harsher punishments, and the Workers are left terrified and confused. Eighteen-year-olds Jonathan Bakker and Esma Salgado forge an unshakable friendship as the gray world they've grown up in crumbles around them. But even in the darkness of grief, hope flickers from the most unlikely places. And though the promise of freedom is now out of reach, the two must decide how they will live out their years in slavery: defeated...or with purpose.

There is no sun. There is no moon. There is only gray—the smog belched from coal-fueled factories. The Workers silently shuffle to their assigned posts. The Outcasts watch from the alley walls. On every corner, a Watcher stands stone-faced, a rifle in hand. This is the only life that exists. Beyond the mountains is a dream. But dreams are foolish in a place like this. Hannah has spent nineteen years dodging Watchers and doing as she is told.Do not look Watchers in the eye. Don't give them a reason to notice you.When she wakes to the valley exploding in revolution, Hannah is forced onto a dangerous path, where nothing is what she believed. Suddenly freedom is in her grasp, and the way there requires working with the men she once feared.

With her mother hospitalized, Mercedez tries to find her place at home where her constantly busy father and perky pregnant stepmother live. Finding a distraction from her dysfunctional family, she falls for the new boy in school and decides to do anything to keep him, even compromise her beliefs. As a Christian, Julia attempts to do the right thing in the world she lives in, weather its joining the band at church, getting straight As, being a supportive best friend, or obedient daughter. However she struggles to keep her faith when life doesn’t go as planned. Angela goes into sophomore year of high school for the second time. In efforts of becoming a reformed bad girl, she struggles to finish high school and stay out of trouble, while working. In her attempts, the lines between wanting to change and actually trying to change become blurry. Not getting attention at home Amanda constantly seeks for it anywhere she can get it. When she finds a crush worthy boy she pursuits him, even if that means moving faster than she is ready to.

Mercedez Mendoza (the impulsive hothead) has had enough with changes in the past couple of years. She can t seem to keep up with the constant demands of high school... and then there s her best friend, Julia Rodriguez (the level-headed rocker) who always does what s expected of her. When her friend needs a shoulder to cry on, she s there. She doesn t understand why people can t do the same for her. Angela es Fresh (the bad girl) is the bad girl gone good, or at least trying to go good. However, every time she tries to change, something holds her back. Amanda Prescott (the insecure snob) is taking a bite out of public schooling because she needs to stay out of trouble after being kicked out of her old school. A labyrinth of relationships encircle all of our lives just like the characters of this novel. Reckless Perfection reflects the struggles we all can relate to as we search for our place in the world created by circumstances. Circumstances: some good, some bad and others we created by our own choices. Reckless Perfection reveals, through the lives of these characters, that all choices have consequences, not on just our lives but those around us.

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