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By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live.

在十六歲時，Rhine Ellery還有四年可活。

She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb.

她可以把這個基因定時炸彈歸咎於現代科學。

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.

一個創造完美種族的拙劣努力讓所有的男性只能活25年，女性只能活20年。

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.

基因學家正在尋求一劑奇蹟解藥來恢復人類種族，絕望的孤兒佔人口的大多數，犯罪和貧窮暴漲，年輕女孩被綁架賣給有錢人當一夫多妻制的新娘來生育更多小孩。

When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape.

當Rhine被綁架賣去當新娘，她發誓她會盡她可能的逃跑。

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.

她的丈夫，Linden，無可救藥的愛上了她，而Rhine不能像她所想要的那般討厭他。

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.

他為她開啟了一個她從來沒想過會存在的財富和幻覺的魔幻世界，而它幾乎讓忽略她短暫的一生正滴滴答答的流逝變成可能的。

But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems.

但Rhine很快學到不是每樣事物在她新丈夫的奇怪世界都是像它看起來一樣。

Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement.

她的公公，一個一心想找到解藥劑的古怪醫生，正在地下室囤積屍體。

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.

她的夥伴姊妹妻子們相信她們有一天會是下一個(?)，而Rhine不顧一切的要聯絡她的雙胞胎兄弟說她是安全的而且還活著。

Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?

在她的時間用完之前，Rhine能夠逃跑嗎？

Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday.

Rhine和Linden的僕人之一，Gabriel，就在她十七歲生日之前企圖逃跑。

But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?

但是在一個持續陷入無政府混亂狀態的世界中，真的有任何自由的希望嗎？