Addison Shields

What would you sacrifice to save the people you love?

A girl who stands apart. A loss she can never outrun. A betrayal she never saw coming - until it was her own.

Addison Shields has never needed a nanite. In a world obsessed with genetic perfection, her family are giants in every sense - towering, red-headed, and stubbornly, proudly unadjusted. As long as they have each other, Addison has everything. Then President Bear's enforcement squads come for them, and in a single night of gunfire and darkness, everything she loves disappears into the grid of compounds spreading across the country.

Alone, hunted, and carrying a grief she refuses to name, Addison fights her way to a hidden resistance deep in the Great Woods. For the first time since the world broke, she finds purpose - and people worth protecting. But when a shadowy government official offers her the one thing she's been fighting for, the price is a betrayal that could destroy the rebellion from the inside.

Addison knows what it means to be loyal. She knows what it means to endure. But when love and principle pull in opposite directions, even the strongest people can crack.

How far would you go - and what would you become - to bring your family home?