Some debts can only be paid in blood.
John Kerrigan is about to learn the cost of his past.
Almost six years after the EMP, America is a graveyard ruled by warlords. John has kept his people alive in Emporium. Rebuilt walls, trained defenders, buried friends. He's earned a fragile peace.
Then his daughter walks back into his life.
Emily Kerrigan isn't the girl he lost. She's The Horizon. A ruthless warlord forged in four years of torture and brainwashing by John's brother, Vorn. She murdered Emma, one of Emporium's leaders and a woman who once tried to save her. She's killed resistance fighters without hesitation. She commands an army. And now she wants his help to hijack The Ghost Line, a heavily armored Cabal train bound for Cheyenne Mountain.
Her target: the architects of Black Dawn. The people who destroyed the world.
John knows it's a trap. He knows Emily is a monster. He knows walking into her camp endangers everyone he's sworn to protect.
But she's still his daughter. And this might be his only chance to save her.
While John risks everything on a suicide mission aboard a moving train, fighting enemies on all sides to reach the fractured girl buried beneath the warlord, Emily's lieutenant has other plans. Ferra wants Emporium burned to the ground. And she wants John to know everyone he left behind is dying because of him.
John senses something is wrong with her. Something personal. Something vengeful.
He just doesn't know what.
As John fights to hijack the Ghost Line, Ferra's forces move into position. No warning. No mercy. Just surgical destruction aimed at the settlement John swore to protect.
Tam, the traumatized boy John promised to keep safe, is trapped in the kill zone.
To save his estranged daughter, John must survive a hijacked Cabal train and the enemies surrounding him on all sides. But a thousand miles away, his surrogate family is dying. And this time, the walls he built can't save them.
Because in this world, your past doesn't stay buried.
It comes home. And it burns everything.
The sixth book in the Dark Skies Saga, where every choice has a body count, and some debts can never be forgiven. For fans of Kyla Stone's Edge of Collapse, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and survival thrillers where the real monsters wear familiar faces.
Dark Skies: A Kerrigan Survival Saga
ECHOES OF THE DARK SUN (Book 1)
DARK HORIZON (Book 2)
VEILED SHADOWS (Book 3)
FADING LIGHT (Book 4)
TIDES OF VENGEANCE (Book 5)
RUSTED SUN (Book 6)
Dark Skies: Warlord Territories
Eli: A Town at War (Book 1)
Eli: Into the Fray (Book 2)
Eli: Forged in Fire (Book 3)
Genre: Science Fiction
John Kerrigan is about to learn the cost of his past.
Almost six years after the EMP, America is a graveyard ruled by warlords. John has kept his people alive in Emporium. Rebuilt walls, trained defenders, buried friends. He's earned a fragile peace.
Then his daughter walks back into his life.
Emily Kerrigan isn't the girl he lost. She's The Horizon. A ruthless warlord forged in four years of torture and brainwashing by John's brother, Vorn. She murdered Emma, one of Emporium's leaders and a woman who once tried to save her. She's killed resistance fighters without hesitation. She commands an army. And now she wants his help to hijack The Ghost Line, a heavily armored Cabal train bound for Cheyenne Mountain.
Her target: the architects of Black Dawn. The people who destroyed the world.
John knows it's a trap. He knows Emily is a monster. He knows walking into her camp endangers everyone he's sworn to protect.
But she's still his daughter. And this might be his only chance to save her.
While John risks everything on a suicide mission aboard a moving train, fighting enemies on all sides to reach the fractured girl buried beneath the warlord, Emily's lieutenant has other plans. Ferra wants Emporium burned to the ground. And she wants John to know everyone he left behind is dying because of him.
John senses something is wrong with her. Something personal. Something vengeful.
He just doesn't know what.
As John fights to hijack the Ghost Line, Ferra's forces move into position. No warning. No mercy. Just surgical destruction aimed at the settlement John swore to protect.
Tam, the traumatized boy John promised to keep safe, is trapped in the kill zone.
To save his estranged daughter, John must survive a hijacked Cabal train and the enemies surrounding him on all sides. But a thousand miles away, his surrogate family is dying. And this time, the walls he built can't save them.
Because in this world, your past doesn't stay buried.
It comes home. And it burns everything.
The sixth book in the Dark Skies Saga, where every choice has a body count, and some debts can never be forgiven. For fans of Kyla Stone's Edge of Collapse, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and survival thrillers where the real monsters wear familiar faces.
Dark Skies: A Kerrigan Survival Saga
ECHOES OF THE DARK SUN (Book 1)
DARK HORIZON (Book 2)
VEILED SHADOWS (Book 3)
FADING LIGHT (Book 4)
TIDES OF VENGEANCE (Book 5)
RUSTED SUN (Book 6)
Dark Skies: Warlord Territories
Eli: A Town at War (Book 1)
Eli: Into the Fray (Book 2)
Eli: Forged in Fire (Book 3)
Genre: Science Fiction