When an even greater danger threatens them all, she must learn to trust and rely on those she was taught to hate and fear. She begins to question what crime was so bad they were imprisoned for years. But as she gets to know them, they do not seem as bad as she thought. However, when a supposed drill turns into something more, Kenzie finds herself taken hostage by the ruthless prisoners.
Considering the security measures in place, the job was not too complicated, and she had her parents there for support. Kenzie knew her duty to Omnistellar as a junior guard: protect the world from the criminal super-powered teenagers imprisoned on Sanctuary. “Caryn Lix takes the prison thriller genre to new places in this YA novel.” ( Quill & Quire) "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive-all while beginning to suspect there’s a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely.Īs Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn’t realize there’s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company-and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward.īut then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.Īt first, she’s confident her commanding officer-who also happens to be her mother-will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.Īs a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station-only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures.
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