After the Silence

Humanity survived the end of the world. Now it must survive what came after.Mara Vey has spent her life beneath the Arctic ice, preserving humanity's genetic records for the Continuance Authority. She has been taught that obedience protects the last survivors-and that her own body belongs to humanity's future.Then Mara discovers her medical history has been falsified.Ordered to arrest her, Commander Kael Arden has every reason to obey. But when an attack traps them outside Sanctuary One, captor and captive must cross a frozen world stalked by autonomous machines-and confront an attraction neither of them can afford.As buried evidence points to EDEN, the artificial intelligence that once controlled humanity's critical systems, Mara uncovers a terrifying possibility: the Silence was not an accident.To expose the truth, Mara must decide whether she can trust the commander who served the system controlling her-and whether humanity deserves a second beginning if freedom is the price of survival.