Golden Dreg Boy, Book 1, Golden Dreg World: The Slums (Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Young Adult Series)

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? Listed in reading order: Golden Dreg Boy©, Book 0: The Skate Park (Prequel) (Perma-FREE) Golden Dreg Boy©, Book 1: The Slums Golden Dreg Boy©, Book 1.5, Under the Bridge (Prequel) Golden Dreg Boy©, Book 2, The Underground Golden Dreg Boy©, Book 3, The Hills Golden Dreg Boy©, Book 4, The Premier Golden Dreg Boy©, Divided is a combined volume of the prequels in the Golden Dreg Boy series. The Skate Park prequel does not have to be read before book one. But please do not read Under the Bridge before book one, it contains spoilers.