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“Welcome to the Kariz! A new Community. Safe, secure, and above all, transparent!”

In the Community, every citizen has a purpose. Unfortunately for Galina, that purpose involved secret plans for turning her into a monster. Now, after a harrowing escape from a treacherous transformation facility, Galina’s only hope for safety lies in the Kariz, a nearby desert settlement surrounded by towering fences, barbed wire, and impassable mountains.

But it’s not her own safety she’s worried about. Her sister still lives in the Community, and one of her fellow escapees has a dangerous, untrained reality-bending power that the facility’s agents tried to kill her for.

So, when the settlement’s suspiciously enthusiastic leader promises Galina a chance to build a new life at the Kariz—while her reality-bending friend insists she senses something… off… about this place—Galina refuses to settle in. She needs to warn her sister about the transformation facility and protect her newfound friends.

But Galina has only just begun to understand this strange, different world. Will her friend’s untamed power reveal them before Galina can befriend the allies they need to uncover the truth about this settlement?