With his abilities, of course, he could have lapped me a dozen times before I blinked. I scowled and put on a burst of speed, but even without using his powers, he easily kept pace. And so I ran, around and around the ship until I collapsed from exhaustion.Ĭage kept pace beside me, bare arms gleaming, muscles sharp and defined even with our recent enforced inactivity. No exercise regimen, no training sessions, nothing but sitting around worrying and ignoring increasingly frantic messages from my dad on Earth until my comm ran out of battery. Life on this alien ship had made me soft. Reed, our resident healer, had fixed my earlier injury, but either he hadn’t managed it completely, or I was experiencing ghost pain. By now, on my twelfth loop, it was a conditioned response.Ī thin sheen of sweat covered my body, one I wouldn’t be able to rinse away, and my foot throbbed slightly. Strings of flickering lights illuminated my way, and I jumped over a piece of something unrecognizable lying in the middle of the corridor. MY BARE FEET POUNDED THE black floors, my breath coming in short, sharp gasps.

Omnistellar has put a bounty on Kenzie’s head-and the question is whether the aliens or Omnistellar get to her first. What Kenzie doesn’t know is that the aliens aren’t the only ones on the hunt. Because if the monstrous creatures who attacked Sanctuary reach Earth, then it’s game over for humanity.

When Kenzie intercepts a radio communication suggesting that more aliens are on their way, she knows there’s only one choice: They must destroy the ship before the aliens follow the signal straight to them. Worse still, she’s haunted by memories of the aliens who nearly tore her to shreds-and forced her to accidentally kill one of the Sanctuary prisoners. Everyone has their own dark secrets: Omnistellar, her parents, even Cage. Kenzie is desperate for a plan, but she doesn’t know who to trust anymore. Now they’re stuck in a stolen alien ship with nowhere to go and no one to help them.

They may have escaped Sanctuary, but Kenzie and her friends are far from safe.Įx-Omnistellar prison guard Kenzie and her superpowered friends barely made it off Sanctuary alive. In the thrilling second book in a series best described as Alien meets The Darkest Minds, Kenzie and her friends find themselves on the run and up against another alien invasion headed towards Earth.

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