Fever

Rhine has escaped the mansion where she was held as a child bride, only to walk straight into a carnival that collects girls like curiosities. Free for the first time in a year, she can smell sawdust and rain instead of locked hallways, and she clings to one plan: reach Manhattan with Gabriel, the servant boy who fled beside her, and find her twin brother Rowan. Outside, the ruined world is no kinder, with hunger, sickness and traffickers on every road in a place where girls die at twenty and boys at twenty-five. The man who built her prison is hunting her to bring her back. Freedom was supposed to save her, but every mile toward Rowan raises its price.