In this thrilling dystopian companion novel to XVI, one defiant young girl fights against systemic governmental control in a world ruled by oppression.Nina had a normal life.That was before her normal was shattered.Before she discovered the truth about her family . . .Now that Nina's sixteen, she sports the same Governing Council-ordered tattoo of XVI on her wrist. The one that all sixteen-year-old girls are forced to get. Th...

In a dystopian world where a tattoo signifies sexual maturity, a young girl embarks on a chilling journey to find her mother’s killer.Every girl gets one. An XVI tattoo on the wrist—sixteen.They say they’re there for protection.Some girls can’t wait to be sixteen, to be legal. Nina is not one of them. Even though she has no choice in the matter, she knows that so long as her life continues as normal, everything will be okay. Then, with one brutal st...