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    Is Love: The Ridley Collection
    Is Love: The Ridley Collection
    Is Love: The Ridley Collection
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    Is Love: The Ridley Collection

    By Nicole Sobon

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    IS LOVE is a novelette series set in a world where natural love is forbidden. Girls are to be matched by the council in order to build a desirable society. Those who violate the Caiden Act are sentenced to live in the outer compounds, where the only thing that can save them is love.

    I wasn’t Rena Phillips, and he wasn’t Colin McKenna.

    It was as simple as that.

    We were brought to nearby cells, left to await separate hearings before the Council all because we’d found something in one another that couldn’t be manufactured – we’d found love.

    The Council didn’t care how we’d felt about one another. No matter how much I wanted to try to explain, to reason with them, I knew it was pointless.

    Natural love in our society had long since ceased to exist.

    From what we’d been told, our world had fallen victim to some sort of plague, taking with it any bit of stability our people had once known.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicole Sobon
    Release dateSep 30, 2014
    ISBN9781502291417
    Is Love: The Ridley Collection
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    Nicole Sobon

    Nicole Sobon is the author of The Emile Reed Chronicles (Young Adult Science Fiction), the Outbreak duology (Young Adult Dystopian), and various other stories. Her novel, Program 13, was quoted on an episode of Criminal Minds (season 8, episode 13, "Magnum Opus"). She is currently working on Deprogrammed, the second book in the Emile Reed Chronicles, which is set for a late May/early June release. She will also be releasing Collide, a New Adult contemporary romance, in July 2013.

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