A Life Of Fear

 

What would you do if you had to spend your whole life in hiding because society could not know of your existence?

 

Twelve year-old Luke Garner faces this situation daily, and is bored and unhappy. The Population Police have decreed that families can only have two chldren, and as a forbidden third child, he can be eliminated if he is discovered. As a "shadow child," Luke must spend his life in total seclusion in the attic of his parents' farmhouse, unable to take part in the world around him.

 

One day Luke notices the face of a girl in the window of a neighboring house where two children already live, and realizes that she is a "shadow child," too. He surreptitiously manages to get to the house, and meets Jen, a daring girl who has a plan to defy the government and bring the shadow children to light.

 

Will Luke get involved with Jen's proposal and risk his life to change his world? What is the price of freedom?

This is the first title in the "Shadow Children" series.