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Linx
Linx
Series · 4 books · 2012-2013
Books in series
#1
The Complex
2012
The Complex - a young adult novel Helena Linx is dying. Isolated and quarantined for over a decade, sixteen-year-old Helena lives in a virtual utopia run by a council of doctors bent on saving the world from a fatal and almost incurable disease. The pandemic has been contained, but she and hundreds of others are still waiting to be cured. Helena dreams of returning to the outside world and leaving behind the heavily regulated world of the Eyam Complex, a place where everything runs according to plan…until one fateful morning. Things begin to change in the complex. And after everything dear to Helena—her father, her brother, and her boyfriend—is taken away, she finally gets what she wants. But life on the outside isn’t what Helena expected. Never in her wildest dreams did Helena think that she’d leave Eyam only to become so desperate to get back in.
#2
Severance
2012
Helena Linx is gone. Quarantined until the age of sixteen, she is now on the run and in pursuit of revenge. Forced to remain hidden in New York—the largest city in the post-pandemic world—Helena has taken on a new name, a new identity, and a new life. However, the life that Helena has chosen is not an easy one. Anonymous assassins, haunting nightmares of a young soldier's death, and the unwanted attention of a powerful politician's son all threaten to derail her plans. Scarred by the past and facing an uncertain future, Helena will do whatever it takes to expose the chilling truth—even if that means cutting ties with the person she used to be. Severance is the sequel to The Complex and the second installment in the Linx Series.
#3
Panopticon
2013
Helena Linx is falling apart. Facing the repercussions of her efforts to reveal the truth, Helena is separated from her closest allies by both justice and betrayal. With their backs against the wall, Helena and her brother Harrison become tangled in politics and scandal as Harrison runs for City Representative—a position of tremendous power, and their ticket to Arbella. There they will find the capital of post-Cavall America and the site of the infamous Lazaretto Penitentiary. But then a brush with death puts Helena over the edge. Suddenly alone and facing death, she has no choice but to seek help in the last place she ever expected to look. And as pressure mounts Helena learns that the only thing worse than being watched, is realizing that all along she should have been watching those whom she thought she could trust. Panopticon is the sequel to The Complex and Severance, and is the third installment in the Linx Series.
#4
Capital
2013
Helena Linx is facing the end. The past year of her life has been marked with lies, danger, and loss. After a chaotic breakout from the Lazaretto Penitentiary, Helena and her friends find themselves with few options and even fewer allies as they continue their quest to reveal the truth about the Cavall virus. Their journey comes to a close in the capital of the post-Cavall America and the site of the fifteenth anniversary of the quarantine complexes. With the annual Candlelight Festival looming, time is running out—and the return to Arbella proves far more tumultuous than ever before. But after living a life characterized by death and ignorance, Helena knows that one path that can undo more than a decade of deception. There is only one thing that can end the lies in the post-Cavall revelation. Capital is the sequel to The Complex, Severance, and Panopticon, and is the fourth and final installment in the Linx Series.