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, al...