This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to find food, shelter, while fighting off the 'Changed' and those desperate to stay alive.Ī tense and involving adventure with shocks and sudden plot twists that will keep teen and adult readers gripped. Desperate to find out what happened and to avoid the zombies that are on the hunt, Alex meets up with Tom - an Army veteran who escaped one war only to find something worse at home - and Ellie, a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse. For those spared, it's a question of who can be trusted and who has changed.Įveryone still alive has turned - some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh). An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky zapping every electronic device and killing the vast majority of adults. and who can they trust?Īlex has run away and is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents' ashes, about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live. Bick is a child psychiatrist, as well as a film scholar, surgeon wannabe, former Air Force major, and an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books, and novels. Wren unwittingly becomes a catalyst for a revolution that destroys the dome, and the only way to survive might be to embrace what the entire society has feared their entire existence.A cataclysmic event. What happens next is a whirlwind of adventure, romance, conspiracy, and the struggle to stay alive in a world where nothing is as it seems.

But Alex's final words are haunting: The sky is blue. Plus, there are those who wonder, Is there life outside the dome or is the world still consumed by fire? When one of Wren's friends escapes the confines of the dome, he is burned alive and put on display as a warning to those seeking to disrupt the dome's way of life. But after nearly two hundred years of life beneath the dome, society has become complacent and the coal is running out. Humanity would be saved by the most groundbreaking technology of the time. Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect the royal bloodline of England when astronomers spotted a comet on a collision course with Earth.

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