And then I'm clinging to Aiden and his arms wrap around me even tighter. He murmurs into my hair, 'Just giving them a reason why we were lingering. 'Play along,' he says, and I force my body to relax into his. 'There is nothing to worry about just don't draw their attention.' He twists in the driver's seat, slips his arms around me and tries to pull me close, but I'm rigid with fear. 'Look at me, Kyla,' Aiden says, his voice calm, reassuring, and I tear my eyes away from the van behind us. It opens from the inside, and she disappears through it. Not dressed in Lorder black? A slight figure, a woman, hat pulled down low to shield her face. Both my fault.Īiden puts a hand over mine, one worried eye on the mirror and the van, one on me. So like my father's death years ago that it wrenched up that most buried memory. A sea of hot red that covered us both, and took my friend away, forever. The gun in his hand, pointed at me, and then. The fear takes me back: another time, another Lorder. Leaden dread pools in my veins, holds me still and numb even as everything inside is screaming run. A black van pulls in behind us, blocking us in. 'Lorders,' I hiss, and scrunch down in the seat. 'I'm not,' I start to object, but then I glance at the road, and all at once, I am. In my case, what lurked within was so well hidden even I didn't know about it.Īiden parks the car along the side of the rundown building. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you'd never guess what goes on in their secret places. But what you get outside is often like that. It doesn't look like much from the outside. In this stunning series finale, Kyla finally finds out who she really is-and the road to this discovery, and to deciding who she wants to become, is full of dangerous twists and turns that will keep readers riveted. Someone close to her may be one of them, and even more frighteningly, her birth mother has been keeping secrets of her own. But even in the idyllic wilderness and the heart of her original family, Kyla realizes there is no escape from the oppressive Lorders.

There she is hoping all the pieces of her life will come together and she can finally take charge of her own future. Sporting a new identity and desperate to fill in the blank spaces of her life pre-Slating, Kyla heads to a remote mountain town to try to reunite with the birth mother she was kidnapped from as a child. Kyla is in danger from both the government Lorders who erased her memory and the terrorists who tried to use her. The stunning conclusion to the Slated trilogy, for fans of Unwind and Legend !

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