Lone Player

<p><strong>You can lie all you want but every lie will come back to bite you someday. They always do. </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(20 24 28 1)>Every citizen is marked with playing card tattoos-one for each wrist. On New Year's Eve two cards are drawn and those with matching tattoos are exterminated by the Chaser Corps. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(20 24 28 1)>The healthy face the lottery once a year; the chronically ill are removed the moment they're discovered. Both are justified as responsible resource management in an overpopulated country with limited supplies. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(20 24 28 1)>Eddie Voclain tells her family she's training to become a Chaser. It's the high-paying respected career her father always wanted for her. In truth she's risking her life with the rebels as an illegal healer to cure her best friend's hidden disease. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(20 24 28 1)>Ren McLellan tells his rebel-aligned family he's attending school because they'd never accept him becoming a Chaser but he'll do anything to save his twin sister. By joining the Corps he'll earn her Immunity so she can never be executed for her condition. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(20 24 28 1)>Together Eddie and Ren live double lives on opposite sides to protect the same person-Margot McLellan friend to one and sister to the other. But lies don't last forever and defying a ruthless system could cost them everything.</span></p>