Fragments

Kira Walker has found a cure for RM, the engineered plague that reduced humanity to a few survivors in East Meadow, Long Island. The cure settles less than she hoped. The uneasy truce between the last humans and the genetically engineered Partials is already coming apart.

She leaves the settlement and heads into the wasteland beyond. Her aim is to trace what remains of ParaGen, the corporation responsible for both the plague and the Partials, and to find the people and records that could explain why each was created. She also needs to know whether either species can survive what follows.

Kira makes the trip across a ruined continent with two Partials as allies. Along the way she meets new factions and runs into old betrayals, and she learns things about her own origins.

This is the second book in the Partials Sequence, a young-adult science fiction series, and it is best read after the first. It is a post-apocalyptic thriller with a tense, survival-driven tone. The story moves out from the confined world of the first book into a much wider one, and the threat feels larger as Kira travels farther from home.