Foundation of Blood

The Offering of Dead Land Series

von Jennifer Morris

820 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Compound 902, survival is measured in points, silence, and blood.Mara Hale has spent six years keeping her family alive behind the Crown's walls, where the dead claw at the fences and children can be chained to the Offering gate for the crime of being too costly to keep. Obedience is supposed to preserve survival. That is what the loudspeakers say. That is what every terrified family pretends to believe.But Mara's twin daughters, Willow and Wren, are different.After a series of breaches, punishments, and medical tests, the Crown begins watching the girls too closely. Willow is exposed to contamination but does not progress. Wren's presence changes the behaviour of the dead. The infected hesitate. The watchers gather. The rules of hunger itself begin to shift.As Mara fights to hold her family together, her husband Elias uncovers evidence the Crown has buried for years, and her son Caleb starts seeing the compound for what it truly is: not a shelter, but a machine that feeds on the people trapped inside it.When the dead evolve and the Crown formally removes the twins from ordinary life, the Hales are forced to face the truth.Willow and Wren were never saved.They were retained.Dark, brutal, and emotionally devastating, Foundation of Blood is the first book in a post-apocalyptic Australian horror series about motherhood, survival, state control, and the terrible cost of being useful.