The Jewel (The Lone City #1) by Amy Ewing
Title: The Jewel (The Jewel #1) Author: Amy Ewing Pages: 304 Genre: YA Publisher: HarperTeen/HarperCollins Canada Release Date: September 2, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N *Received for review via Edelweiss + HCCFrenzy Summary: ( Goodreads ) The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty. But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude. Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty—because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring. Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel’s glittering facade: the cruelty, backstabbing, and hidden violence that have become the royal way of life. Violet must accept the ugly realities of her existence... and try to stay alive. But then a f...