The Lone City Trilogy by Amy Ewing

Title: The Jewel
By: Amy Ewing
Published: 2014
Call #: YA Fiction Ewing.A

Title: The White Rose
By: Amy Ewing
Published: 2015
Call #: YA Fiction Ewing.A

Title: The Black Key
By: Amy Ewing
Published: 2016
Call #: YA Fiction Ewing.A

The Lone City Trilogy has been touted as a cross between THE SELECTION SERIES and THE HANDMAID’S TALE. In a world where the rich and royal cannot reproduce on their own, they must purchase surrogates— young, beautiful, talented women from the poorest areas of the city, women who are gifted with special, supernatural abilities—to bear their children for them. Violet Lasting has been purchased as a surrogate by the Duchess of the Lake and suddenly finds herself living in a world full of cruelty and violence. She is tasked with using her powers to birth a child in less than the standard 9 months—much less. Violet realizes that she is in danger and, with the help of one of the Duchess’s servants, begins planning her escape. However, Violet did not count on falling in love—a forbidden love with Ash, a male companion brought into the palace for the Duchess’s niece.

That’s the premise of this fantastic series, but to go into any more would divulge too many spoilers. You’ll just have to read it for yourself.

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