Nine

16 year-old Faith Monroe needs to know if theres an assigned seat for her in the universe before she loses her life. Its the year 2025 and shes one of several teens slated to discover her expiration date but theres only one complication: The transport shes riding in has a number of teens including herself who never received the extraterrestrial death chip. A device implanted at birth set to kill you at your appointed time.As perfect genetic matches for the leaders of the planet NINE Faith and her friends must prevent an assimilation of their souls. Training her soul to resist wont be easy. In fact shell have to die first. A soul cant fight back while its still attached to a living being. Faced with a nearly impossible choice run away or stay and be trained she summons the fearlessness to fight. Maybe shes finally found the real reason shes survived her illness to restore the concept of dying by grand design rather than government mandate.