Jaded

By Kristy Feltenberger Gillespie and Linda Bradshaw

Book Overview

Jade has spent her entire life within the confines of the eye-color-obsessed Nirvana commune. She dreams of experiencing freedom, but travel to the Outside is forbidden. As Jade's seventeenth birthday approaches, she realizes just how little she wants to follow the commune rules. She doesn't want to undergo another eye color surgery, or immediately choose a life partner, or follow her parents' life paths. It seems easier to close her eyes to the future.Her grandmother Ruby's murder makes Jade open her eyes wide for the first time in her life. She's devastated yet determined to find the killer and the motive. With help from her mysterious friend Tyrian, and Peaches, the commune leader's sweet daughter, Jade unearths dark secrets.Jade can't continue conforming to an evil society, but she doesn't know anything about the corrupt Outside. If she resolves to flee and is caught, she'll be blinded. If she makes it, she may never see anything the same way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061597483X
• ISBN13: 9780615974835
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Keep Calm Publishing
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"