They saw a creature climb out of a manhole. A flash of green light was the last thing they saw of Chicago.
Now Jay and Rachael are prisoners beneath the Earth, trapped inside a hidden civilization preparing to conquer the surface. To survive, they must trust a resistance willing to betray its own kind and find a way home before the war begins.
On New Year's Eve, Jay and Rachael step onto a balcony just in time to watch something drag itself out of a manhole in the middle of the city.
Moments later a weapon they've never seen drops them into the dark. They wake far below the surface — prisoners of the Tembers, an intelligent, armored species that has studied humanity for years and is quietly preparing for war.
To survive, they'll have to break out of cages, slip past laboratories and underground prisons, and outrun creatures that should not exist. But the deeper they go, the clearer one truth becomes: not every Tember wants the surface destroyed — and some of them may be the only reason Jay and Rachael ever see daylight again.
A hidden world. A ticking clock. And no way back up that doesn't go further down first.
Miles below the streets, in chambers carved from black stone, the Tembers have built a world the surface has never imagined — and never been warned about.
Endless corridors of carved black stone, moving treads, sealed labs, and prison chambers built to swallow whatever — and whoever — is thrown into them.
Seven feet tall and plated in armored scale, with claw-like mandibles and six thin black legs. Humanoid above, something far older below. Intelligent. Organized. Patient.
On flickering screens they study our roads, our homes, our machines. To their Council it stopped being curiosity a long time ago. Now it's only preparation.
Above them, the city counted down to midnight.
Below them, something had been counting for far longer.
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