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As a rogue government official orders an alien attack on the Empire of America, two women must uncover the government's dark truth and unravel the weave of lives that have spanned decades. They'll learn why alien-human hybrids were created, and will need to master their own alien powers in order to survive.
-- Genetic testing on humans began during the Cold War, when ancient alien DNA was discovered in the artic. As super soldiers were created during the war, Americans soon began to create the first wave of alien-human-hybrids in preparation for the day when the aliens would strike.
Nearly a century on, the world has been broken by an extra-terrestrial war and Kit Valletta is a human-mutant trying to survive in one of the only free zones left in the Empire. But the President wants her dead and is going to stop at nothing until all the mutants Kit freed are back in her control.
When Kit meets Evie Fox, one of the President's scientists, who's broken free of the wire, the two begin their fight for freedom and justice as the alien attack hits Empire soil. Together, both women will need to accept the secrets they've been trying to hide and decide if they're the ones who are powerful enough to save the Empire from the President's dictatorship regime and alien invasion.
I took a chance on this book when I saw it on Amazon and it looks like it's the first book for this author and it's a good attempt. There's some clunks in there which look like they've been updated but the story is what's most important and what engaged me.
Kit and Evie are both mutants in an America that's been ravaged by an extra-terrestrial war, Kit is a soldier in a resistance army and Evie is a scientist, the two of them meet and begin their campaign against the tyrannical President as they're about to be invaded again by the Others.
For a first book in a series, this story requires a lot of setup which this book deals with as well as it can do. I like the main characters and that there's some LGBTQ+ representation in sci-fi.
I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for the next book.