Saving Day (DEPOP-17)

Book info: Saving Day (DEPOP-17) (Paperback, 332 pages) – Independently published, 2015. Language: English.

Trimba Olion is a hunter. On her seventeenth birthday she has her Saving Day and her hunt begins. In the virtual reality contest that decides who lives now and who gets stored for the future, Trimba tracks down her runner and brings glory to the Olion Family, the greatest hunting family in Juun. She earns herself a place in the present. Or she does not. The virtual world of Depop-17 is a riddle; dangerous and chaotic. Even the fourth Olion sister may lose her way and end up getting stored in the racks, froze for the New World, a so-called "New World Survivor,” waiting in stasis until a new planet can be found. Romance surprises her. Passion confuses her, twisting her mind into knots. She has sworn off boys until after the pop is over, but what if this is him? What if this is the one? Right here in the middle of the depopulation challenge, her true love? It’s a toxie cliche she has always rejected and ridiculed, and yet….