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★★★★★ Utterly terrifying, addictive and yet so full of love. -Amazon review

★★★★★ Great writing and a truly gripping story. -Amazon review

★★★★★ Dark, disturbing and deeply compelling. -Amazon review

Mae finds herself pregnant in a world where the global population has hit twenty billion, and governments decree that no…

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Emma Ellis spins the most horrifying yet hope-filled stories of dystopian societies. In book one of the Eyes Forward series, the world is in a population crisis. Resources are heavily rationed, and the governments of the world are actively taking steps to curb population growth.

That’s when Mae gets pregnant and learns she must find a “life donor”someone who agrees to die so that the baby may live—or abort her unborn child. I appreciated how Ellis threaded the horror of a forced abortion into a gripping tale of human resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.

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