1st September, 1940: France. Anya Devlin dosen't fly a Spitfire, and isn't a trained spy, but she is doing her all to make life difficult for the Nazis who have invaded France. Alone, scared and British, Anya has to learn some difficult and painful lessons about Love, War and Surviving.

No one knows his real name. People call him Shade - a young boy who's been on the run from the ruthless gang who murdered his parents for as long as he can remember. Because he knows a secret. A secret many would die... or kill to know.

Carcasses of great cities are scattered over the earth. Strange animals roam endless forests. Inexplicable phenomena haunt anyone who attempts to penetrate the mysterious woods. And those who survived the Second Genesis have settled in small towns dotted throughout this world, reminded constantly of their place on the food chain and doing their best to survive. The world of humans had fallen in a matter of days, slaughtered by the environment they themselves had been waging war against for centuries. Misko, the great forest spirit, is responsible for the deaths of over two billion people. And now, nine years later, Claude swears that one day he will take back what was taken from him. But his plans of killing Misko were only dreams until a strange young nomad by the name of Finny appears and offers Claude a deal -- if he can protect Finny out in the forest, he will take Claude to Misko. In a twist of fate Claude finds himself pitted against his own people in a race to commit the most important slaughter in the history of mankind. But is this what he really wants?

I am a predator. Humans are the prey. I feed off their fear as they drown in my arms. But life didn't used to be this way. I wasn't always half-human and half-fish. I used to be one of them. A human. This is my story.