Chapter One
Things were getting desperate. They’d eaten the last of the food two days previously, and the water had run out the day before. Jas Harrington sat in the cab of the truck and wondered how much longer they would last if they didn’t succeed in breaking through the Shadows’ siege of Sayen’s home.
Carl had parked the truck a kilometer or so away. Its battery was almost dead. Jas hoped they were far enough from the house to avoid detection. Sayen’s call to her parents from the untraceable interface had gone through, and after they’d gotten over their joy at hearing her voice, they’d diverted the call to an encrypted line.
Neither of Sayen’s parents had left home for weeks. They hadn’t even ordered food deliveries in fear that the Shadows would take the opportunity to invade. The
