Khalani is a Prisoner. Takeshi is a Guard. Both are slaves to the Underground. Khalani Kanes has never stood on the surface of the earth. In the underground city of Apollo, faith and dreams are as absent as the sun. She longed to visit Genesis, the infamous Domed City and the final place where humanity lives aboveground. But when Khalani is given a life sentence and thrown into prison for a theft she didn’t commit, those wishes shatter into oblivion. In Braderhelm Prison, murderers are neighbors, ruthless and cold-blooded guards live to punish, and every second is a battle… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Sexual assault & attempted rape, thwarted by the perpetrator being beaten to death & having his eyes plucked out
- Physical child abuse & domestic violence recounted, resulting in the love interest murdering his step-father in revenge for murdering his mother
- Suicidal ideation (protagonist, on-page)
- Alcohol consumption & mentions of smoking
- Decapitation mentioned
- Murder of a mother & father recounted (protagonist)
- Physical assault & death in ‘fight pits’
- Mass shooting mentioned
- Imprisonment (theme), including inhumane treatment of prisoners through electrocution, starvation, and being worked to death
- Nuclear fallout & terrorism recounted (post-apocalyptic world, set 300 years after the events)
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