
You get used to the thunder. It's when it stops that you should be worried. Sixteen-year-old Mason Lake learned this the night masked soldiers dragged his sister, screaming, into the night. Their offer was simple: leave the walls, scavenge valuables from the Blitz, and fill her ransom fund to get her back. So he learns to strip bodies before the storms take them. To ignore the names carved into wedding rings. To live with the weight of trading a piece of himself for one more day of hope. Then a Blitzer girl with lightning in her eyes and a knife at his throat decides not to kill him. She should be his enemy. She shouldn't feel bad for him. And yet she becomes the only thing he has left to lose. When the final price for his sister is revealed, Mason must decide what's worth more: the girl he swore he'd save... or the one person who kept him human. A heart-pounding dystopian where surviving is simple enough. Staying human is the hard part