New York Moments and USA Today bestselling author profits with an emotionally charged fantasy experience story filled up with heart-pounding action and suspense for readers of most ages.

After fragments of the comet hit Globe, Dust wakes to find the world as he knew it is gone. It is not the thing that has changed though; so has Dust. He now possesses powers that continue steadily to grow, but they also come with a price.

A deadly encounter after Dust leaves his home leads to a fresh discovery-other about Dust: Before and After survivors. Dirt soon learns that another creature offers risen from your ashes, one that is determined to obtain the power he now offers. On a trip filled with risk, it will require the abilities of not only Dirt but those of his friends if they are to survive.

This time around the race isn’t towards the swift but towards the deadliest in a global where a changed human boy and an odd assortment of friends must face their worst nightmares and accept that life on the planet won’t be the same again.

Join Dirt and his friends as they battle to overcome an bad force determined to make a new species unlike any the world has ever known. “A story with action, adventure, and, most of all, heart, you will not become disappointed.”-H. D. Smith, writer of Keegan’s Point, on Ristéard’s Unwilling Empress