608pages | Trade Paperback

It certainly filled the Battlestar Galacticashaped hole in my heart.Victoria Aveyard, bestselling author ofThe Red Queen

Read theNew York Timesbestselling blockbuster that critics are calling out-of-this-world awesome. The first in an epic sci-fi series unlike anything else out there.

Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing shed ever been through. That was before her planet was invaded. Now, with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.

But the warship could be the least of their problems. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleets AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their biggest threat; and nobody in charge will say whats really going on. As Kady plunges into a web of data hacking to get to the truth, its clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: Ezra.

Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documentsincluding emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and moreIlluminaeis the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.

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