They are coming. The countdown has begun. First
 visible only as blips on a telescope image, the discovery of objects 
approaching from Jupiter orbit immediately sets humanity on edge. NASA 
doesn't even bother to deny the alien ships' existence. The popular 
Astral space app (broadcasting from the far side of the moon and 
accessible by anyone with internet) has already shown the populace what 
is coming. So the news has turned from evasion to triage, urging calm 
and offering the few facts they have: The objects are enormous, 
perfectly round spheres numbering in the dozens, maybe hundreds. They 
are on an approach vector for Earth. And they will arrive in six days. Fear simmers. Meyer
 Dempsey - mogul, wealthy entrepreneur, arrogant and always in charge - 
is in New York, on the phone with his ex-wife in LA when the news 
breaks. He can hear tension in the voices of reporters and experts 
chronicling all that's known and unknown. But even while those 
supposedly in charge restrain their own panic, Meyer finds he recognizes
 bits and pieces of what the world is facing. He's seen this in dreams -
 in visions of another place. He knows where he and his family must go. 
He has prepared … though he never knew until now what he'd been 
preparing for. He knows only they cannot hesitate. They must run
 to their safe haven in the Colorado mountains. Now. Before society 
shatters into chaos, and it all falls apart. Fear rises. Meyer
 has been taking steps for months, and has made preparations: a trove of
 supplies, a van stocked for the worst, a Gulfstream waiting at a small 
airstrip in Jersey. But he hasn't yet been able to take the final and 
most important step: moving the family to Colorado, where every 
contingency is covered. The networks stay on-air longer than 
expected, creating a farce of calm. But those with means have already 
begun to scramble as Meyer gathers his wife Piper and his two teenage 
children and begins their race toward that compound, toward safety. 
There is no time for hesitation, regret, or pity. Soon, pundits begin to
 ask questions hard enough to tip those who've thus far stayed calm out 
of their complacency, inciting chaos: What do the beings inside 
the ships want? What will they do when they arrive? And what if the 
scientists are wrong, and the spheres aren't decelerating? Will they 
strike the planet, raising clouds of extinction dust? Will they knock 
the Earth off its axis? Is this a prelude to an alien invasion? An alien
 war? An alien apocalypse? The first domino in the birth of a new alien 
empire? Fear erupts. Panic, once it breaches the thin crust 
of civilized society, spreads like a virus. Meyer knows only one thing, 
and it's a truth that has perched atop his mind like a psychic 
obsession: When the ships arrive, his family must be at the Colorado 
compound or all will be lost. The space fleet in itself doesn't matter. 
The disintegration on the surviving news outlets does not matter. 
Reports that Las Vegas has been set ablaze do not matter. The fate of 
humanity, in Meyer's eyes, doesn't matter. All that matters is 
Piper. Trevor. Delilah. And Meyer's ex-wife Heather, coming to the same 
destination from the west - a woman who remains his best friend, and his
 secret lover. Rioting spills into the highways as time ticks 
away. Unrest boils in both city and hinterlands. But Meyer's obsession 
to reach Vail is single-minded, guided with the focus of a far-seeing 
nightmare. Gangs can ground his plane, threaten his vehicles, and steal 
his belongings. But nothing will stand between Meyer's family and their 
haven … and Meyer will kill his way to Colorado if he has to. This
 relentless, page-turning tale of apocalyptic dawn is the first in the 
alien invasion series by masters of story Truant and Platt, authors of 
The Beam, Robot Proletariat, the Dream Engine series, and many more.

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