What would you do if you woke up with no memory of who you once were, in a body that was not your own, and everyone wanted to kill you? vThe year is 2619. The line between man and machine has blurred. Humans routinely live out their days in virtual reality. Robots roam the streets. Drones rule the skies. And cyborgs are common. Rhea is one of those cyborgs. A melding of flesh and machine. And yet that is the extent of her knowledge. Her mind has been wiped. All that she once was, erased. She has only two friends in the world. The tech who brought her back from the brink. And his robot helper. Together, the three of them roam the Wastes between cities. They earn their keep by salvaging spare parts from the Old World. This while trying to stay one step ahead of the mutants that call those plains home. And then, when Rhea saves the life of another cyborg, her world changes. She must make a choice. Go with the cyborg and risk it all to help a doomed city. Or flee, turning her back on a world that cast her aside and left her for dead...

A high-ranking DIA operative has been kidnapped in Iraq by the Islamic State, and with her, secrets that could bring about the collapse of major intelligence-gathering networks throughout the region. Can Ethan Galaal find her before it's too late? Samantha Rond, head of an ultra-secretive branch of the DIA's Defense Clandestine Service in the Middle East, has gone missing during a key operation. Her last known location: the occupied city of Mosul, the war-ravaged heart of the Islamic State in Iraq. Ethan Galaal and his elite team of undercover operatives are dispatched to rescue Samantha. Officially, he and his men don't exist. Unofficially, Sam is their boss, however in her absence the team reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. Their years of experience in operating incognito in the region make them the ideal candidates for the rescue mission. But first they have to find Sam. Setbacks exist at every turn. Surrounded by enemies and unsure of whom to trust, Ethan soon begins to suspect that a rogue non-state actor has been advising the Islamic State in Mosul. Will he find her before the interrogators extract everything of value and destroy Sam's mind? Or will elements of the rogue faction hunt down Ethan and his team first, bringing the rescue mission to a spectacularly premature end? **