Aveline: 1 (Lost Vegas Novellas)

In post-apocalyptic America five hundred years in the future famine war and chaos have created a hell on earth. Outside the isolated city of Lost Vegas violent skirmishes among the Native Americans - who have retaken their ancestral homes - claim lives by day while ancient predators awakened during the Age of Darkness hunt humans by night. Inside the city criminals the impoverished and the deformed are burned at the stake weekly. Among those ruthless enough to survive is seventeen-year-old Aveline a street rat skilled in fighting whose father runs the criminal underworld. On the night of her fathers unexpected death a stranger offers to pay off her fathers debts if she agrees to become the guardian of Tiana Hanover the daughter of the most powerful man in Lost Vegas. Caught between her fathers debtors and his enemies Aveline reluctantly accepts.Expecting a pampered princess Aveline soon discovers sheltered sweet Tiana is little more than a slave - and harboring a secret the wealthy Hanovers will kill to keep. Its not until Aveline uncovers the truth about her fathers death that she realizes her fate and Tianas have been bound since long before they met.Will Avelines street smarts be enough to keep them both alive?