SOLVED. YA Fiction. Girl trying to escape all of the rules that are trying to be set on her,including marriage at a young age. Leaves off on a cliffhanger. Spoilers. [s]

[Cadnie]

This book has a leaf with a couple raindrops on the cover,it is also a 2 book series. I read this book in 2022, September. It starts of with a girl who was about to be of age for a suitor,in this book women were not allowed to read,women weren’t allowed to choose who they wanted to marry and would have to be placed with whichever guy would choose them.There would also be security who would wear masks running all around.This girl in specific had her grandmother who she looked up to which she also learned to read from.Her grandma was her role model.One day she went out,and accidentally met this boy who happened to work for one of her suitors she had been previously paired with.Later turns out that she would be forced to live with one of the suitors that had chosen her.When she moved in with him she met his parents and where she would yet again meet the boy that she accidentally met in the alley.She would be forced to stay in a room where the door would be locked.The suitors dad tried to rape her when the boy from the alley smashed a chair into his back.They girl and the boy from the alley had been communicating every chance they had since they would consistently be under the same roof.They had a plan where they would run away together and he made sure she knew that he didn’t have a lot.When they ran away together they ended up in an underground bunker where his mom also loved but she hadn’t been there in a long time.She wanted to look for her grandma since she was the only person in the whole city that she could trust.They ran away together running and at the end of a city there were a couple of fallen buildings which is where they happen to find people living inside the building.One of the people living there was her grandma as well.They reunited and she was just glad that after everything that had happened to her she had found someone she could trust.They had a plan to leave the city thru a tunnel which was able to lead out undetected.When they left they found out the tunnel was filled with water but the boy from the alley had taken a chance and went in.There was in fact a way out.When they all made it out of there they found out there were more houses but it seamed as if they were all abandoned.They found a little kid and walked up to them when all of a sudden a patrol car pulls up behind them and they get forced into the cars.Thats where the book leaves off.

[Annamariah]

Haven't read it myself so I can't be sure whether it's a perfect match, but a little bit of googling led me to Time Zero by Carolyn Cohagan, which looks promising.

[Kris]

Google Books preview of Time Zero by Carolyn Cohagan - Annamariah's suggestion:

- https://books.google.com/books?id=I7M...

[Cadnie]

YES! this is exactly the book I was looking for, thank you so much Annamariah!

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, Cadnie.

Time Zero (book 1) of The Time Zero Trilogy by Carolyn Cohagan - Annamariah's find.