Chapter 1

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Snow lashed sideways against the perimeter fence, turning the floodlights into hazy white halos. The compound had been built to vanish into this kind of night—low concrete blocks, narrow slit windows, steel doors that sighed shut with the finality of vaults. For twelve years, it had been Alia's whole world.