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'Luna is a pest control agent. She works for big city, killing monsters in the outback so the sugar farms can deliver an uninterrupted supply.

'But the isolation and heatwaves in sector R-6 have awoken a monster of a very different kind…' (Publication summary)

'Moving to Grey Oaks was an opportunity for the Barrot family to start again. A chance to escape the darkness that had almost consumed them. A chance to forget would could have been and look forward to the future. But in the shadows, something was watching, something that had decided they were special.

'And so, the darkness came to town.

'Shadows moving through the night, branding human livestock with strangely shaped symbols in final preparation for the Great Black Flood that would come to eat the world.' (Publication summary)

'Ten years after the tragic events that shook the small town of Grey Oaks, the world has become a very different place.

'Their mother is gone, their father has abandoned them, and Jessie and her younger brother, Alex, are living as outcasts from society in an isolated corner of rural Mexico.

'With their only friend, an alcoholic bartender from The Last Stand tavern, and a mysterious stranger called Ron, they must locate Yaqui Indian Don Candillo to survive an impending invasion that threatens to bring their entire world to a brutal end.'

(Source: Madman Entertainment)