Promise

In the Society, the Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always believed in their choices. The clear path to an ideal life, a suitable job, a perfect partner. And when the face of her best friend, Xander, appears on the screen, Cassia knows with certainty that she was promised... but she catches a glimpse of Ky Markham's features, just before the computer shuts down. It's just a minor glitch in the system, he says, which lasts only a second and is enough to put Cassia in an impossible dilemma: Xander or Ky, the life she knows or the inexplicable path, her certainties or her love.