The DeclarationIt's the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can't sustain population growth, however...which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids—called surpluses—despite a law forbidding them from doing so. These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they must atone for their very existence. Then one day a boy named Peter appears at the Hall, bringing with him news of the world outside, a place where people are starting to say that Longevity is bad, and that maybe people shouldn't live forever. Peter begs Anna to escape with him, but Anna's not sure who to trust: the strange new boy whose version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every waking thought? |
Contents
Section 1 | 7 |
Section 2 | 21 |
Section 3 | 33 |
Section 4 | 43 |
Section 5 | 51 |
Section 6 | 61 |
Section 7 | 71 |
Section 8 | 86 |
Section 15 | 168 |
Section 16 | 182 |
Section 17 | 193 |
Section 18 | 209 |
Section 19 | 215 |
Section 20 | 224 |
Section 21 | 235 |
Section 22 | 245 |
Section 9 | 100 |
Section 10 | 112 |
Section 11 | 126 |
Section 12 | 137 |
Section 13 | 146 |
Section 14 | 160 |
Section 23 | 251 |
Section 24 | 267 |
Section 25 | 280 |
Section 26 | 286 |
Section 27 | 295 |