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Edge of the known world : a novel / Sheri T. Joseph.

ISBN: 1684632625
ISBN: 9781684632626
Physical Description: 312 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Phoenix, AZ : SparkPress, 2024.
Copyright: &copy;2024

Summary:

"Alexandra Tashen is a brilliant student, adoring daughter, and exuberant prankster. She is also hiding in the open. After a blissful childhood on a Texas ranch, Alex learns that she is a refusé from a brutal regime who was smuggled into the Allied Nations as an infant. Everyone from her birth region carries a harmless but detectable bit of viral DNA from a regional vaccine. If detected by the rapid genetic testing at security screens, Alex will be returned to a likely death. Her adoptive father developed a gene therapy to mask her g-marker, but it is not fully effective. Every g-screen presents a nerve-racking one-in-ten chance of getting caught. When her father goes missing, Alex abandons her cloistered academic existence for a precarious and often hildarious race across nations to save him, unraveling the secrets of others, navigating a love triangle, and testing the very nature of family, loyalty, and moral obligation." --back cover.