Known Parties

Riley O’Dair was supposed to be gone by Monday. A weekend back on the family farm. One birthday party. One carefully avoided conversation with Cassandra Connor. Then back to Harvard, back to the lab, back to pretending she had outgrown Harmon, Iowa. Then every device in the house went dead. A message appeared across the world: INTEGRATION COMMENCING.SEEK SHELTER WITH KNOWN PARTIES.ALL BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES WILL BE ASSESSED AND ASSIGNED. Now a countdown is ticking in Riley’s vision, the laws of physics are already bending, and something vast enough to catch falling airplanes is rewriting reality one rule at a time. Riley has her family. She has an almost something Cassandra. She has a farm, A PhD student's stubbornness, and less than half an hour before the first wave hits. The System made one mistake. It gave Riley O’Dair people to protect.