Marked

Sixteen-year-old Lyla lives in a bleak, controlling society where only the brightest and most favored students succeed. When she is caught buying cheats in an underground shadow market, she is tattooed—marked—as a criminal. Then she is offered redemption and she jumps at the chance . . . but it comes at a cost. Doing what is right means betraying the boy she has come to love, and, perhaps, losing even more than she thought possible. Graphic novel–style vignettes revealing the history of this world provide Lyla with guidance and clues to a possible way out of the double bind she finds herself in. What happens when your only way out means destroying the one person you’ve come to love? YA Dystopian Novel: Experience a gritty, high-stakes world where Lyla must navigate a rigid class system and the constant threat of a controlling government. Forbidden Love: To earn her freedom, Lyla must spy on Gillis, the boy from her past she can’t afford to fall for. But every secret shared brings them closer to a love that could cost them everything. Forced to Betray: Caught between the state that marked her as a criminal and the rebellion that might be her only hope, Lyla faces a series of morally grey choices where every decision has a price. Graphic Novel Elements: Discover the secrets of this post-war world through unique, graphic novel-style vignettes woven into the narrative, offering clues that could lead to salvation—or ruin.