A Time to Speak by Nadine Brandes

Book 2 of Out of Time Trilogy

Summary:

What happens when you live longer than you wanted to?

Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she's being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow.

The Council uses Jude's Clock-matching invention to force "new-and-improved" Clocks on the public. Those who can't afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council's purposes.

Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea. What will the Council do to them? And why are people suddenly dying before their Clocks have zeroed-out?

Opening Lines:

I've been robbed of my death.

A date was set, a coffin prepared, and a grzve dug in the earth, yet I breathe against my own will as my brother is lowered six feet down. The smooth wood coffin displays the best of Father's carpentry skill. Did he originally carve it for me?

Enforcers surround the gravesite--black human pillars lined with bullets, staring straight ahead. Probably making sure I don't run.

Solomon Hawke is not among them.