• Age: 11 to 18
• Grade: 6 to 12

It’s a decade since the world died. Humanity has retreated inside walled territories to protect those who are left. Every day is like the one before it: simple, mundane, dreadful.

Erin Bishop lives in the territory Eden, where she enforces the rule of Mr. Bellemark, its leader and keeper – a self-proclaimed saviour of the world. All is well inside her concrete cage until the day she learns of a terrorist threatening the lives inside the walls and her partner falls victim to a vicious attack.

All at once, Erin is swept up into a centuries-old battle between dark and light. She must fight to finally expose the secrets plaguing her life inside Eden and face the hideous truths of her existence.

E. J. Cross lives in Kitchener, Ontario with her family. A graduate of Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, she has been writing since she was fifteen years of age. Through the hardships of treating her mental health issues, she has used creative writing as a form of therapy, inventing fantastical scenarios to escape the struggles of mundane life. As an advocate for equal representation in the media, E. J. Cross strives to create characters of various mentalities, creeds, races, genders, and sexualities in order to diversify the genre of young adult fiction.

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