He's a living weapon. She's a teenage fugitive. Together they'll uncover an alien conspiracy-or die trying. Erika Holt keeps her entanglements to a minimum and her eyes on the horizon. She's counting the days until she graduates, when she'll motor out of her dusty, dying border town to start a new life by the sea. But fate has other plans for Erika. When a quiet night in the desert turns deadly, Erika and her friends evade death...