In a world of suffering and cruelty, she is the key to his humanity...I was fourteen when I was sold to the men in black uniform.After four years spent in Calico, I saw more death and suffering than in the days when I survived in the Dead Lands. I didn't think this world could get any darker. Until I knew my purpose. That same day, I wandered through the dark corridors in the depths of this hell, where suffering occurs in silence, and the ghosts of the dead whisper through the walls. The place where I met my Champion - the most revered Alpha in S Block - locked in his dark cell. He is their weapon, their only line of defense against the mistakes of the past: mutations that could destroy all that is left of us. I, I him whipping girl His reward for good behavior. And his punishment for acts of disobedience.