Ahern, Cecelia

"In a future society where 'flawed' people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl takes a stand"--.

Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed.

In a future society where perfection is paramount, Celestine North leads a perfect life, in a perfect body, being a model daughter, sister, and not least the girlfriend of the charming Art Crevan. Then, she makes one instinctive decision, and breaks a rule. Now she faces imprisonment, branding, and being outcast as Flawed.

Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded as "flawed.".

In a future society where perfection is paramount, Celestine North leads a perfect life, in a perfect body, being a model daughter, sister, and not least the girlfriend of the charming Art Crevan. Then, she makes one instinctive decision, and breaks a rule. Now she faces imprisonment, branding, and being outcast as Flawed.

Sandy Shortt has made a living out of helping people find things since a childhood classmate disapppeared twenty years earlier, and, while searching for Jack Ruttle's missing brother, stumbles upon the obscure place where all lost things go and finds herself searching for a way back home, and back to Jack.

Elizabeth Egan, a woman who keeps rigid control of her life, home, interior design business, and six-year-old nephew, learns to let go of her unhappy past and rediscover the joy of childhood when she becomes acquainted with her nephew's imaginary friend, Ivan.