Melaska has been a prospering nation for centurys. It's rich, powerful, well educated, and healthy. The one thing their people lack is happiness. So every five hundred years a wish develops in the forests and the council has every unhappy citizen send in an appilcation as to why they think they deserve the wish.
Marcus no-last-name or better known as Slum lives in the poorest part of Melaska. He has never had enough to eat or a roof over his head and when he, like every one else sends in his ap ... more »

Melaska has been a prospering nation for centurys. It's rich, powerful, well educated, and healthy. The one thing their people lack is happiness. So every five hundred years a wish develops in the forests and the council has every unhappy citizen send in an appilcation as to why they think they deserve the wish.
Marcus no-last-name or better known as Slum lives in the poorest part of Melaska. He has never had enough to eat or a roof over his head and when he, like every one else sends in his appilcation for the wish he knows the odds are against him. By miracle Slum is chosen to be one of the six Desirables, but he soon finds their is much at stake because every month a desirable is deemed unworthy by the council and banished to the wilderness of Cellophania, a harsh country known to have particularly fierce wolves.
In the competition, Slum knows not to trust his fellow desirables but finds himself best friends with the sly mysterious Mr. Green and falling for the simple yet charming Silence MayPeirs. Many tests, tricks, and troubles are thrown his way as he struggles to win and stay alive.  Less