Select (The Select)

About this book

A modern-day young adult retelling of Romeo and Juliet with a supernatural twist that will appeal to fans of Ally Condies Matched and Kiera Cass The Selection Julia Jaynes has the perfect life. The perfect family. The perfect destiny. The daughter of a billionaire investor in Austin Texas it looks like Julia has it all. But theres something rotten beneath the surfacedangerous secrets her father is keeping; abilities she was never meant to have; and an elite society of highly evolved people who care nothing for the rest of humanity. So when Julia accidentally jeopardizes the delicate anonymity of her people shes banished to the one place meant to make her feel inferior: public high school. Julias goal is to lay low and blend in. Then she meets himJohn Ford. Hes popular quiet intense and strangely compelling. Then Julia discovers she can read his mind and her world expands. Their forbidden love is powerful enough to break the conditioning that has kept Julia in the cold grip of her manipulative father. For the first time Julia develops a sense of self and questions her restrictive upbringing and her family prejudices. She must decide how she will define herselfand whom she will betray.