Guest

Once means all's well. Twice means something's coming. Three means run.Eik has always known that his family is different. His mother adjusts him at the kitchen table with a tinyscrewdriver. His father tells the same joke every Friday. Both of them taught him a secret signal and apromise: Remember who you are.Then the knock comes, the steel door gives way, and Eik is left with a small hexagonal box and nowhere togo but Lossen.Lossen is a city of scrap built by the survivors of a collapsed world: rusting containers, drone-patrolled ridgesand creatures nobody planned for. Here the old machines are still half awake. Nivi can feel them. Maya hideswhat she knows. Theo guards a camp that has learned never to trust strangers. And RazorClaw, a warmachine that should have been dismantled, wants Eik's answers just as badly as Eik does.As the box wakes, so does everything around it. And Eik discovers that the most dangerous thing in Lossenmay be the truth about himself.Guest is a standalone-feeling first volume with a cliffhanger worth the wait. Perfect for readers of dystopianand post-apocalyptic adventure, and for anyone who loves a story about found family, machines with heartsand the courage to stay human.