In a future where women are a rare commodity, Emma Burke wakes from an accident with no memory of her past, knowing only what her handsome and highly successful husband, Declan, tells her. But her dreams contradict everything he says, showing her a past life she can't believe possible: war, growing up in a camp where girls are trained to be wives, and, most unsettling of all, intense love for, and marriage with, a man who is not Declan. When she realises the man from her dreams actually exists...
The world’s population has been decimated by the Change, a chain reaction of events triggered by global warming. In Europe, governments have fallen, cities have crumbled and the wheels of production have ground to a halt. The Alps region, containing most of the continent’s remaining fresh water, has become a closed state with heavily fortified borders. Survivors cling on by trading through the Runners, truck drivers who deliver cargo and take a percentage. Amid the ruins of central Germany, two...