Anathema

Senior year is tricky, especially when your classmates can legally kill you. Kathryn Grant has an amazing life in Cordoba Bay, California, but one mistake may cost her everything. She's convicted of a crime and declared an 'anathema'. In this United States exactly like our own, but with a pure free market justice system, anathemas are criminals and outcasts with no right to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. The sadistic sport of hunting anathemas and collecting the bounties on their heads is the main tool of delivering justice and the most popular national pastime.

Kat's only chance of survival lies in an Asylum Scholarship, which may get her a ticket to Europe and a longer lifespan in a more forgiving country. Surviving long enough to secure the scholarship is a hardship all its own. Her boyfriend's mother, the town mayor, contributes to her bounty just to see Kat come to a speedier end. Her best friend's crush, Russell, is perversely fixated on killing Kat himself. And how will Kat's best friend, Amanda, react to the sinister turn in Russell's interest? Hopefully not by joining the brand new Cordoba High School hunting club.

The one person Kat can turn to is Alexander Metz, the other anathema at school with a dark past and enemies of his own. Only Alexander can help her when Trent "The Wolfman" Savage, the most notorious of America's anathema hunters, comes to town with the rest of the Death's Disciples hunting guild. Can Kat and Alexander use a dangerous secret to save both their lives, or will they become two more dead anathemas in a nation that celebrates the destruction of its outcasts?