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Welcome to the prestigious Forge School of the Arts, where every waking moment of the students' lives is televised. For twelve hours a day, every class, conversation, and gesture is broadcast to millions of viewers. And for twelve hours each night, the students undergo an induced sleep, proven to maximize creativity. Rosie Sinclair has staked all her dreams of becoming a flimmaker on succeeding at Forge. But when she skips her sleeping pill one night, she discovers an insidious world behind the cameras. As she navigates the Forge landscape of art and manipulation by day, Rosie finds it increasingly difficult to trust either her instincts or her mind. The only thing she knows for certain is that she must unearth the ghastly secret that the Forge School is hiding. From the author of the Birthmarked Trilogy comes a fast-paced, psychologically thrilling novel about what happens when the dreams you follow are no longer your own.

Caragh M. O'Brien's Promised is the conclusion to the thrilling YA dystopian adventure Birthmarked Trilogy, where the world is divided between those who live inside the wall and those who live outside. After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and upending the rigid matriarchy of Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her biggest challenge ever. She must lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave and persuade the Protectorat to grant them refuge from the wasteland. In Gaia's absence, the Enclave has grown more cruel, more desperate to experiment on mothers from outside the wall, and now the stakes of cooperating or rebelling have never been higher. Is Gaia ready, as a leader, to sacrifice what—or whom—she loves most?

Gaia Stone, comadrona de dieciséis años, se adentra en los páramos con su hermana casi recién nacida, unas pocas provisiones y un simple rumor a modo de brújula. Aunque sobrevive, es atrapada por las gentes de Sailum, sociedad distópica donde mandan las mujeres, pese a la superioridad numérica de los hombres, y donde besarse es delito. Para ver de nuevo a su hermana, Gaia debe someterse al estricto código social y a las opresivas reglas de la Matrarca Olivia. Entre tanto, dos hermanos compiten por ella mientras intentan comprender la trampa medioambiental que mantiene atrapados a los habitantes de Sailum, por lo que Gaia debe enfrentarse a la emocionante, incómoda e inédita experiencia de sentirse deseada. Sin embargo, cuando se reencuentra con alguien del pasado, la joven descubre que la supervivencia no basta y que la justicia requiere sacrificio. Segunda parte de la trilogía Marca de nacimiento que tiene sin duda todas las virtudes del primer título y, curiosamente, se caracteriza por la creación de un mundo bien diferente al del Enclave, a la vez que nos aporta una importante evolución en los protagonistas.

In the future, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like 16-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Gaia delivers babies, then hands a quota over to be 'advanced' into the privileged society of the Enclave. She has always believed this is her duty, until the night her mother and father are arrested.