A Single Light
A Thriller
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
In this gripping, high-octane sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls “everything you want in a thriller,” cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease.
Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty-one others, Wynter and Chase emerge to an altered world. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they surfaced—the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs.
As the clock ticks down on Julie’s life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground?
With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. They come face-to-face with a radically changed society, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon again to help save a nation she no longer recognizes—a place so chaotic she’s no longer sure it can even survive.
With Tosca Lee’s signature “beautifully written and deeply unnerving” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author) prose, A Single Light is a breathless thriller of nonstop suspense.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in an America devastated by a disease that causes dementia, Lee's so-so sequel to 2018's The Line Between finds cult escapee Wynter Roth, her love interest, her five-year-old niece, and 60 others living in an underground silo near Gurley, Nebr., prepared by a survivalist named Noah. Sealed off from the outside world, the silo is on a time lock and programmed to open after six months, when it's expected to be safe aboveground. Since the device required setting from the outside, Noah remained behind to do so, and he periodically stays in contact via video message. Tensions inevitably arise among those in the silo after Noah stops communicating. A debate ensues whether to try to leave the silo early, and matters get even worse with a shocking act of violence. The earlier sections effectively convey the claustrophobia of the setup, but once Wynter and some of the others manage to leave the silo, the plot loses steam. Fans of apocalyptic fiction will be disappointed.
