Product Overview
Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist.
Elysias purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the islands workerssoulless clones like Elysiaare immune to.
At first, Elysias life is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesnes human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. But for what, exactly? She also comes to realize that beneath the islands flawless exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent among Demesnes worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not careso why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysias mind?
If anyone discovers that Elysia isnt the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When her one chance at happiness is ripped away with breathtaking cruelty, emotions shes always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive.
The first in a dazzlingly original science fiction series from best-selling author Rachel Cohn, Beta is a haunting, unforgettable story of courage and love in a corrupted world.
Elysias purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the islands workerssoulless clones like Elysiaare immune to.
At first, Elysias life is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesnes human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. But for what, exactly? She also comes to realize that beneath the islands flawless exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent among Demesnes worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not careso why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysias mind?
If anyone discovers that Elysia isnt the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When her one chance at happiness is ripped away with breathtaking cruelty, emotions shes always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive.
The first in a dazzlingly original science fiction series from best-selling author Rachel Cohn, Beta is a haunting, unforgettable story of courage and love in a corrupted world.
Praise for Beta:
A terrific premise that is equally well executed...Readers can only hope [the sequel] will be as thrilling as this series kickoff.
--Los Angles Times
