Outlaw

The sexy, action-packed first book in The City of a Thousand Lies trilogy by award-winning Imogen Keeper.THE GOVERNMENT drugs us with 'vitamins.'They monitor us with nanochips.They subjugate us with fear.Citizens obey.Outlaws are hunted down in the streets.NO ONE knows that better than me.Four years ago, my mother died, my father rebelled and was instantly Outlawed, leaving me responsible for my sick sister, a stack of bills and both our lives.So I kept my head down and I prayed the government would never look my way. But they found me anyway and have issued an impossible command. I have to write the code to convert nanochips to mind control devices and take the final freedom away from all of us—our own minds.FOR A TEST SUBJECT, they gave me Romeo-Three, a captive bio-engineered soldier as dangerous as he is irresistible.The reckless hope that saturates his every word ignites inside me a longing for a life beyond...