What if the price of living forever is the extinction of everyone else?
For fans of Divergent and The Tide Lords comes a blistering dystopian thriller about a world broken by the ultimate gift-and the ultimate curse.
Talus spent his childhood on the streets running from a single, paralyzing terror: death. He thought he'd engineered the ultimate salvation, a breakthrough to evolve humanity and conquer mortality forever.
Instead, he built a nightmare.
Now, a ruthless army of unkillable monsters hunts the final, shattered remnants of mankind. The blood of billions is on Talus's hands. To fix his catastrophic mistake, he must face his oldest fear and find a way to tear down the very immortality he created.
Anya doesn't hide from monsters, and she refuses to live in fear. Survival has made her sharp, cynical, and fiercely independent. When she defies direct orders to meet Talus - a rogue immortal who claims he holds the key to destroying their shared enemy - she expects a weapon. Instead, she finds a man drowning in secrets.
Though drawn to his dangerous warmth, Anya isn't blind. Immortality stripped the humanity from the beasts hunting them, yet Talus and his inner circle still possess a soul. She must uncover the truth behind his mercy before she trusts him. But in the ashes of a dying world, a single misstep means extinction.
As the final, apocalyptic battle looms, Anya will discover that her legendary fearlessness has a breaking point, and Talus will face the ultimate truth: some things are worth dying for.