Alexjcreads
June 2020. In Greenwich, Connecticut, seventeen-year-old Claire Hung is living what should've been her final summer before senior year - winter trips, swim meets, college dreams, and days spent with her three closest friends: Phoebe, Stephanie, and Ellison. But when a global catastrophe strikes without warning, Claire's world fractures in a single violent moment. The "Death Angels"-blind, armored creatures who hunt sound-descend on Earth, shattering every expectation of safety.
After witnessing the deaths of Phoebe, Stephanie, and Ellison on Day One, Claire plunges into a storm of grief and survivor's guilt. Forced south toward an evacuation route in Miami with the remaining Greenwich swimmers, she clings to a fragile hope: that she can keep the rest of her friends alive.
In the chaos of collapsing cities, Claire finds unlikely allies in Miami police officer James Brenning and firefighter Diego Austin. Together, they navigate the early brutality of the invasion - the panic, the silence, the cracking of a world learned too late to whisper.
Their final mission: reach one of the last safe evacuation flights departing Miami International Airport, bound for Melbourne, Australia - a continent still protected by the ocean the creatures cannot cross.