...There's got to be more to love than a number. There's a feeling; somewhere deep inside, that triggers, that ignites, when we meet the one... When the pressure of a palm print against a cold, hard screen can instantaneously identify a good match based on genetics, few would waste time trying to determine the resilience of a relationship on their own. Except Ruby. At eighteen Ruby is recruited for a trial, entering blindly into a government experiment for an undisclosed length of time. Surrounded by peers and the buddings of newly-brewing affairs, Ruby finds her interests captured by a...

There was only one thing on Ruby's mind when she complied with the Shuttle's orders: Emerald. Her own personal mission was clear: do as they tell me to ensure the safe return of my daughter. But when she arrives to carry out her duties, absolutely nothing is as it seems, deception is the only option for completing the mission, and now it's not just Emerald's life that hangs in the balance. Ruby and Xander's assemblage is forced to tiptoe through layers of deceit to avoid disrupting the fragile society they've been sent to observe. Methods employed are controversial, government systems are...