The Girl Who Could Breathe
A Texas Zone Chronicle Novel
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
- Fantasy
The air in the Zone doesn't just kill—it mutates everything it touches. To survive the toxic wilderness, you need a mask, a filter, and a prayer. Unless you’re Nico. Nico is the only person who can breathe the poisoned air. When the ruthless dictator Falcon razes her home and murders her father, her secret immunity becomes a deadly tool for vengeance. Escaping into the wasteland with her childhood friend Dan, Nico sheds her identity and assumes the mantle of a fallen soldier to join a desperate rebel cell in the ruins of Old Waco. To the rebels, she is Jack, a fearless second-in-command. To the enemy, she is a ghost—a maskless shadow haunting the supply lines of a tyrant. But as her nanite-enhanced blood begins to reveal its true power, Nico realizes she isn't just a survivor; she is a catalyst for the world’s rebirth. As Falcon’s massive military machine closes in for a final confrontation at the crumbling highway interchanges, Nico must decide how much of her humanity she is willing to sacrifice to breathe life back into a dying world. The war for the future has begun, and the first breath belongs to her.