Jeff Hirsch

Micah Cole and his parents has been in deep space for three years on a mission to find intelligence. When a meteor shower nearly destroys their ship, Micah is separated from his family and stranded on Sovereign, a vast planet of raging rivers, towering forests, and deadly creatures....

As a member of the most powerful family history has ever known, 13-year-old Dan Cahill has been shot at, kidnapped, and even thrown into a pit with a deadly snake....

Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories....

A civil war rages between the Glorious Path - a militant religion based on the teachings of a former US soldier - and what's left of the US government....

Sixteen-year-old Glenn Morgan has lived next to the Rift her entire life and has no idea of what might be on the other side of it....