Coming of Age

Kendra Blake doesn't much feel like celebrating these days. Her eighteenth birthday should be a happy time, but all she can think about is her brother, Harris, and how he disappeared five years ago. And he wasn't the only one-across the world, there's been an alarming rise in disappearances of eighteen-year-olds. When Kendra goes back to school, approached by Richmond Gideon, billionaire owner of the space company Minerva, she figures out why.

To combat climate change and overpopulation, all...