When seventeen year-old Runner was sentenced to death for stealing a loaf of bread in MegaCity One, his dreams were literally at an end. But then he opts to sign up for the Remnants of Men, a government sanctioned search for a rumoured fresh water lake beyond a radiated wasteland. At first, it seemed like a second chance to a new life, the transformation from zero to hero. But after an encounter with a rabid gang of men suffering an acute insanity, he soon comes to understand that he is one of many discarded into the wasteland to study the cannibalistic effects of a new drug called the Sixth Sense. Olivia Patterson has had one too many doses of the Sixth Sense and owes a massive debt to a shadowy rebel and loan shark called Death-Throe. Being the daughter of the City's dictator, she knows too well that the gallows awaits any who associates with the rebel. In an attempt to free herself, she acquires an asset in the form of Runner and finds herself always at the edge, for if he survives it means freedom for both, but if he dies...

Leila Grace Dobson thought she knew her family. Her mother, the kind loving woman who taught a small kindergarten class. Her father, the nice but strict man who was the CEO of an important business. Her brother, who always teased her but never meant it. She thought she knew them. But it was all a lie.

Krystal is a gamer. She loves Minecraft. But one day, she gets an letter in the mail that says she has been selected to go to Stockholm, Sweden to the Mojang Headquarters along with 17 other teens to learn how Mojang programs Minecraft and other cool things. But there is a threat among the group, a threat that endangers Mojang itself, but especially Krystal and the other teens. Will Krystal be able to bring the threat down?