The Greater Good
(By Lauren M. Tracey)
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Following a scandal involving Omnia’s Minister, a mass execution is ordered all female children born within a five year period. Desperate to save his own illegitimate heir, the Minister entrusts his best friend and State Physician, Salvatore Grimmley, to ensure her protection.
Twenty one years later, while she is still alive, her life has never been her own. Never being able to leave the house, be her true self, know her family, and never even having a name of her own, she is sworn to protect the one secret no one can ever know-
That she is a woman.
This secret becomes harder to conceal after she is caught during an irregular government raid while attempting to help another escape and brought to the State Prison of Mortem where she is given her first true identity-Three Twenty-Seven.
Overcrowded and with no signs of slowing, the Ministry implements what they call Cleansings-series of challenges where prisoners are drawn from a Lottery and forced to compete through grueling challenges until only one remains. Whoever is left after the final Cleansing will be awarded their freedom.
After being drawn from the Lottery, Three Twenty-Seven is the only one left standing, something which seems highly unusual as all other contestants were much larger and much more intimidating. To test if this was a fluke, she is pulled once again and wins, setting into motion the Ministry’s plan to make her the underdog and make as much money off her winning as possible.
As she competes through these challenges, Three Twenty-Seven discovers unlikely allies, creates formidable enemies, uncovers her true name and identity, and learns about her country’s twisted past and, in turn, her own. After she is told her true identity, the sole heir to Omnia, and receives her actual name, Veritas, she suddenly feels a responsibility to everyone around her to make it through to the end so she can earn her freedom and help those who truly deserve it find theirs as well.
As she continues fighting for her life, she is faced with the choice between love and freedom as her loyalties become tested; should she trust the person sworn to protect her or the person she swore to protect?
Will she be able to overcome these challenges, keep her secret, and rise above to secure her freedom? Or will she become yet another sacrifice made, as with all things in Omnia, for the Greater Good?”
