![]() ![]() ![]() Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. ArtÃculos relacionados a Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy) Portada. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. She earned her BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Albertus Magnus College in Connecticut. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Lauren DeStefano is the author of The Internment Chronicles and the New York Times bestselling Chemical Garden trilogy, which includes Wither, Fever, and Sever. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. ![]() A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. ![]()
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