Sovereign

Chemical warfare has obliterated the world, and the survivors have turned into feral beasts, save one colony, the last remnant of civilization. Orphaned by a vicious savage attack ten years earlier, Cori Cole was rescued and brought to the colony. Now 17, she is a nuisance by nature and deed, and she's never managed to assimilate to the controlling laws. The colony's founder shields Cori from punishment, born of his grandfatherly affection for the troublemaker. But when the old man dies une...