It's 18 years after the nuclear holocaust and the end of civilization, as we know it. Survivors are being relocated to a new society known as the Alliance. It seems like a dream come true for many of the new citizens.

Crime, as well as harmful emotions, such as anger and prejudice, have been eliminated, because the Alliance has computerized control over its citizens from a computer chip that has been implanted in everyone.

Eric Lloyd discovers the Alliance's corrupt power structure and vows to destroy it. But can one person change the world?

The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children.

If you’re lucky, you live to fight another day.

In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child becomes the object of an obscene harvest, resulting in the construction of a machine-like creature whose sole purpose is to kill.

The mysterious Shade — once a man, but now more like the machines he fights — recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power — and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become...