Midnight City
Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in this alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens’ mysterious plan
Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone — a powerful, telekinetic super-signal broadcast across the planet, which has reduced them to a state of complete subservience. But the tone has one critical flaw. It only affects the population once they reach twenty-one or twenty-two years old. This means that there is one group left to fight. Teens.
Holt Hawkins is a bounty hunter, and his current
target is Mira Toombs, a treasure seeker who has escaped from Midnight
City after being sentenced to death. It's not long before Holt bags his
prey, but their instant connection isn't something for which Holt
bargained. Neither is the Assembly ship that crash-lands near them
shortly after he captures Mira. Venturing inside the ship, despite the
tied-up Mira's objections, Holt finds a young girl who can't remember
anything except her name: Zoey.
The three soon begin an adventure through alien-conquered North America, encountering young freedom
fighters, powerful artifacts of strange science that seem like magic,
pirates and brigands, and frightening mutated creatures of the night,
all while trying to stay one step ahead of the Assembly. Zoey, in the
meantime, starts to exhibit amazing powers while Holt and Mira begin to
realize that this young girl just may be the key to stopping the alien
invaders.
Midnight City is the breathtaking first book in
the Conquered Earth series that chronicles three young people and their
journey through a dangerous world as they try to save it.
