Chapter 1 Bianca bolted upright in bed, heart smashing against her ribs. Her roommate, Claudia, stared at her. The other girl flipped on the light between their two beds and watched her nervously. “You’d have that dream about him again?” Claudia asked, her blue eyes wide. Bianca nodded. Mortification deadened her limbs as she realized she’d woken up her roommate with her screaming. Today was her twenty-first birthday, and like clockwork, the nightmares had come back. K-Day. The day the Krinar had arrived and taken over. Everything that Bianca had believed about her life and even Earth itself had been turned on its head once the Krinar had made some announcements to the world. Thousands of years ago, the Krinar had modified existing life on Earth to become compatible with and originate

