New Year’s Eve, 2014. At the stroke of midnight, an emerald flash covers the world. When it fades, the mortal population has vanished.
The only survivors are a handful of teenagers gathered in London. Two bickering siblings; two best friends; an isolated loner; the girl who doesn’t want to be there, and the boy who can’t bear to leave.
But when they rescue Evelyn Amaefule from a burning church, the unlikely group are forced to work together. For Evelyn comes to them with tales of gifted students called Astrael, legends of Time and Space, and cursed ‘glitched’ objects brimming with uncontrollable power. Her plan is simple: locate the runaway power that has caused the apocalypse, destroy the source of its energy, and return the human population to the world. The mortals jump at the chance to reconnect with loved ones—and for Evelyn, how better to prove herself a worthy Astrael than saving the world?
But as their journey across the country progresses, the survivors realise the skeletons in Evelyn’s closet may lead to their own demise. For she is being hunted by Harpies: a gang of masked children exiled from the Astrael’s ranks. And they will kill anyone—even the last remnants of humanity—to catch her.
The first in the five-book Infinity, Decayed series.