Beth

In a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain,
hiding a dangerous secret begins...

Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis.... When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes, and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water... all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise.

In the City-State of Taliville, Elizabet Gibson, accountant, is both grateful and bored. She's grateful to have a paying job, her own minuscule apartment that costs most of her monthly pay, that her father and aunts are still alive and relatively healthy, and for her best friend, Ashley Monahan.

The friends, eager to see something new, take a daring trip to the country in an armored bus to the little township of Ridge Lake. Elizabet comes home to find that her apartment has been broken into, her landlord up in arms and about to massively fine her on top of raising her rent, and trying to find a way to keep her life intact so she doesn't wind up on the streets avoiding indent gangs, or worse- having to live with either one of her snobby, elitist aunts. Both of whom are trying to breed her off to "enhance the right kind of DNA." All while harboring a dangerous secret.

Jordan Kearney, retired Sergeant Grand Master of the Guard and now Chief of Police in Ridge Lake (a title he scoffs at since he's the only cop in nearly three hundred miles outside the City-State), has kept his focus on keeping his little family and township safe and alive from a deadly raider by the name of Eli. He has no idea that a terrorist has an eye on his home town. The absolute chaos Elizabet is about to spark in his life. The number of laws- the ones Jordan swore on his life to uphold- that he's going to have to break. Under the noses of his old unit which have come screaming into town after his call for assistance...

SO IT BEGINS...