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Table of Contents
Title Page
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The Bounty Hunter
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Copyright
The Bounty Hunter Series
Young Adult Science Fiction
Boxed Set
Dystopian Romance
By: Kacey Lu & Third Cousins
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The Bounty Hunter
The Cost
Book 1
Dystopian Romance
By: Kacey Lu & Third Cousins
A SYNOPSIS...
When the world government realized that the world was about to be damaged beyond repair, they had to take drastic actions. A thousand years later and the last of the population are living without technology and under the strict regulations set by The City of Hope council.
The problem is that nobody can fight back. Each person is required by law to have a chip inserted into them at birth. This chip can be deactivated at any time and once that happens, your life is deactivated with it.
There is a small fraction of people though who fight against The City of Hope. They’ve managed to hide for generations and can’t be tracked, because they were never chipped. They’re the reason that Sarah was forced to become a bounty hunter. They’re the reason that the most important thing in her life was taken from her.
When Sarah finds a huge camp of old worlders, she knows that she only needs one to finish paying of the council, but when she chooses to take a girl with wild hair and leave the rest, she doesn’t realize that there’s one man, who will stop at nothing to get her back.
INSPIRING WORDS
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
CHAPTER 1

Sarah
The air was filled with the sweet smell of corn and sunshine, which was pouring down from an almost perfect blue sky. I could only count a handful of small fluffy white clouds in the entirety of the sky. I walked down the broken paved sidewalk that had been left to decay when the old world fell. It was among the last known remnants of the old world that existed outside of The City of Hope.
The City of Hope looked strange compared to the world outside of its walls. I’d heard stories that thousands of years ago the world had been covered in imposing, tall gray buildings and narrow, sun shy roads, but The City of Hope was the only place you could find them now.
A gentle breeze played through the tall corn that was growing in the fields beside me. It felt good, as it caressed my skin and cooled off the sun’s hot touch. I reached a small row of huts. They were all built of clay and wood and their roofs were thatched. It had been long since outlawed to build houses with bricks and cerement. It was considered too permeant.
I stopped when I reached the first door and I wrapped my knuckles against it briskly. I had a lot of houses to cover and I didn’t want to feel like any of my time was getting wasted. I heard a shuffle of feet on the other side of the door and then it opened. A friendly looking, rosy cheeked woman with fly away brown hair looked at me hesitantly. I knew that she knew who I was. I could tell from the way all of the friendliness she had first shown dropped from her expression. “Can I come in?” I asked her and then I pushed open the door without waiting for a reply.
“Why are you here?” The woman demanded to know. “I’ve paid my taxes and my crops won’t be ready until the end of the month,” she declared.
“That’s always good to know,” I said with a curt nod. “That’s not why I’m here today though,” I explained, as I pulled the small leather bag off of my shoulders and opened it. “Is your husband here? I would really rather speak to both of you at the same time.”
She shook her head. “He’s working out in the field.”
“Well, I’d appreciate it if you could go and call him back,” I said to her with a forced smile, because she wasn’t being very helpful.
“I’m sure you would,” the woman said and she looked at me in a stuffy kind of way. “The crops need to be seen to though, if you expect your harvest on time, so you’re just going to have to do without him.” Her eyes gleamed, as though she’d just won the argument.
“Look,” I said to her sternly, because I wasn’t in the mood for people thinking that they had a right to prevent the course of justice. “I’ve been told that there is an old world camp settlement close to here. If this is true and you have been helping them in anyway, then the punishment will be deactivation of your chip.” I stopped. I could see the small flicker of fear in her eyes, when I mentioned the deactivation process.
“I haven’t seen or helped no old worlders,” she said to me quickly.
“I’m sure that’s true, but I’d like to speak to both you and your husband, so that I can be sure.” I gave her a long hard look, until she nodded and headed towards the back door of her hut.
“I’ll be back as soon as I can,” she said with a flustered face.
“Hurry,” I said with nod and then I took a seat next to the small hearth, so that I could wait in at least some comfort. My feet ached with relief, as I took my weight off of them and I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling of comfort, until the woman came back in.
“What is all of this about?” Her husband asked gruffly as he walked into the room.
“Ah, good, you’re both here,” I said and I stood up and walked back over to my bag. I reached inside and wrapped my hand around the cool, metal device, which I would be using to see whether they were telling the truth. “So, I’m going to explain to you how I like to do things,” I said in a friendly tone. “I’m going to ask you both a series of questions, but on an individual basis. You’re both to be in the same room when it happens though. This machine,” I paused, as I pulled out the chip reader. “Well, it can read all of your bodies vital signs from the chip that you have implanted. So, I’m going to hook you up to make sure you’re not telling any lies.” I finished with a warm smile, which wasn’t greatly received.
“What happens if it says that we’re lying?” The woman asked and she looked worried. Almost a little too worried and I could almost taste the victory that would lead to.
“It will deactivate your chip,” I said to her simply.
“You can’t just kill us,” she said and she sounded as though she was about to lose her shit.
“Well, if you don’t lie, then it won’t happen,” I explained to her, because the choice was hers to make. She nodded. “I’m going to ask your husband some questions first,” I explained and then I turned on the machine and held it over his arm, so that it could start scanning his chip.
The woman looked like she was on the edge of breaking. I already knew that it would be her that I got the truth from, but I also knew it would be because I’d threatened her husband’s life. I started my questions and waited for her to spill.
CHAPTER 2

Nathan
I walked back into the thick line of bushes that would take me back to camp. The thick vines of thorns torn into my legs, but I ignored the fiery stinging feeling. My back ached with the weight I had been carrying since that morning. I’d been trying to sell scrap metal saucepans to the farming town that was close by, but I’d been mostly unsuccessful in my quest.
My friend Natasha had been right. She’d told me that no one would be willing to buy wares from an old worlder. It was too much of a risk for them. I should have listened to her and then I wouldn’t have wasted my entire day on a fruitless effort.
I found Natasha waiting for me on the border of the camp. Her small little nose was wrinkled in annoyance and her cheeks flared red, when she saw me. “I thought I told you not to go?” She said, as soon, as I was in earshot of her. “I thought I talked you out of it? Why would you do this to us all Nathan? Why would you put us all at risk?”
I wasn’t quite sure what to say to her. The camp needed money. If we ran out then we would be reduced to stealing for our food. “I did this for the camp,”