If youre lucky, you live to fight another day.In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no human shall live a day past their fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the children of the Dorms are taken to the Meat Factory, where they will be made into creatures whose sole purpose is to kill.The mysterious Shadeonce a man but now more like the machines he fightsrecruits the few teenagers who escape into a secret resistance force. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shades children come closer than the others to discovering the source of the Overlords powerand the key to their downfall. But the closer they get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become.
