Chapter 1

Nathaniel Kaczmarek was just twenty-two when the Russians invaded Poland, where as a newly drafted soldier, he was mortally wounded. His body was taken in by an old engineer woman who restored him to glory and beyond, outfitting organic life with machine. All the while, the Germans beat the Americans to developing the first nuclear weapon- and drastically. The bomb, dropped onto America by way of German fear, obliterated the continent and 95% of all human life. Decades later, humans survive in small communities, together- all except for Navi, the metal angel.