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What if humanity's survival was riding on a single test? Daoren and Heqet face the unthinkable. Like every 19-year-old in their society, they must take the survival aptitude test. Only the smartest pass the S.A.T. and earn the right to live. The rest are harvested for food. That's the grim reality on the dying Earth, 700 years after mass extinctions have erased every other life form. Fortunately, Daoren and Heqet may hold the answers for saving their species. There’s only one problem - and it isn’t the S.A.T. Human greed and personal treachery might kill them first.

The Disruptions aren’t the only thing troubling 16-year-old Bex. A mysterious melody haunts her thoughts and tugs at her heart. Bizarre blue-violet coronas orbit the heads of her friends and family like miniature galaxies. Are the anomalies somehow connected to her dead sister? Are they the byproducts of an unraveling world? Are they the signposts of an unraveling mind? A strange woman holds the answers. For Bex, the answers reveal a connection between life and death that she never dreamed possible.

Rosalind's neocarbon broadsword and chemo gun are all that stand between her defenseless sheep and roaming packs of snarling wolves. Together with her border collie, Sox, she guards the flocks in the ashen pastures of the valley, the only home she's ever known. But the valley has changed over the past year. Her fellow pastoralists - once numbering in the hundreds of thousands - have disappeared. She's changed, too: becoming self-aware; becoming larger than herself; becoming ravenous. She's started slaughtering sheep to fuel her insatiable appetite - and the Makers aren't happy.

After spending the last century off-planet in the Kuiper Belt, exo-miner Quatrain Dyer awakens from stasis to an agonizing toothache and an unnerving sense of displacement. Why is he in his hive's old recspace? Why is all his gear still here? And why hasn't the reintegration team from CAGE Dynamics met him? The answers Quatrain discovers will turn his reality inside out