Golden Dreg Boy, Book 1: The Slums

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Pub Date 02 Jul 2020 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2020

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Finding out who you are has never been so deadly.

In the ruins of San Francisco California, survivors of an epidemic that swept the nation have pooled inside the cities, restructuring life as we know it. Now it’s the strong against the weak; the rich Golden against the poor Dreg.

The Golden govern everything. Living above the city in four sectors, they look down on the Dreg slums. Against all odds, the Dreg have become survivors. Unable to afford proper care, their immune systems have adapted to protect them against the diseases now infecting the Golden.

Seventeen-year-old Kade Shaw is a privileged Golden. Kade and his family have the best money can buy, living in the wealthiest area of Sector One. A bored rich kid, Kade’s tired of his mundane life, and regularly sneaks out to the skate park and the slums to take risks and feel alive—maybe even kiss a Dreg girl or two. Until one night at an illegal party, everything goes horribly wrong.

When the cops accuse Kade of falsifying his Golden status, an offense that carries a death sentence, he is forced to question his true heritage after his powerful parents won’t save him. Then, on the eve of his execution, he’s rescued by a guerilla Dreg group—but why? What do they want from him? As he lives with them in squalor, trained in raiding for food, fighting, and how to survive, he slowly gains respect for the Dreg people, seeing them as more than “other”, confusing the age-old lines of good and bad. But despite his infatuation with Saya, a beautiful Dreg girl, Kade still wants his old life back.

In the brewing deadly war between rich and the poor, Kade must make a choice between fighting for his Golden status or helping the Dregs who saved his life. Golden or Dreg?


Finding out who you are has never been so deadly.

In the ruins of San Francisco California, survivors of an epidemic that swept the nation have pooled inside the cities, restructuring life as we know...


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After the world quake that killed off half of the population, the survivors categorized themselves into two classes: Golden and Drag. Goldens were given every privilege as Dregs could be arrested or executed for almost anything (even just talking to Goldens).
Kade longs for a live other than the one he is being pushed into as a Golden. But to do anything less than his family's and society's expectations of him could lose highs Golden status along with the security, wealth, safety and comfort it gives.
Kade is a seventeen year old who not only craves thrill and adventure but is also empathetic to the lesser class, the Dregs, even though most Goldens hardly think of them at all.
When an unauthorized party goes from bad to worse, Kade's Golden status is revoked and he is sentenced to execution. The day before his death he is resumed by a group of Dregs... but why?
After bonding with the Dregs, Kade sees just how unfair the class systems is. With the world on the verge of war, Kade must decide if he will fight for what is right amongst his new friends, or fight with the Golden's in order to reclaim his status he secretly wants back.

I hope that, even though this book is a work of fiction, it will open our eyes to the world arounds us and the injustices that are being done. If we are not careful and do not fight for the rights of all human kind, I fear that this cruel dystopian world will become our reality.

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