An unlikely hero. An unfinished ship. Humanity's last hope.Ryan Anders has spent his life fighting for a place in a world that doesn’t want him.Chosen by lottery to attend the Fleet Academy, he learned quickly that survival means knowing when to keep your head down.Until the day the sky fills with fire.Without warning, an alien armada descends, shattering Earth’s defenses and scattering its fleet in a storm of confusion and retreat. Amid the chaos, Ryan seizes an unfinished warship.The plan is get his friends clear of the slaughter. But the moment they break orbit, the plan is gone. Now they are cut off, flying blind, forgotten.Their enemy does not speak. Does not negotiate.And they will not stop until humanity is dust.

It started with the end, something like the drop of a curtain. A white veil in a haunting in-between calling my name. The last word hanging on the edge of a sentence. And then nothing. I remembered nothing. I didn't have time to remember anything when the danger made itself known-the village wanting me dead. There was only time for survival then. Pain. Suffering. I should be killed. I deserve much worse, yet I continue to linger in spite of it. And the only reason I tell you this, love, is because my story is not yet over. I am still here. For you, sweet girl. Because you will finish this legacy I have made and turn it to ruin. Wake Me Up is unsuitable for those under the age of eighteen due to adult language and graphic violence.

Edith Ashton is the last of her kind. But the world thinks she’s dead. 1893 London. Witches live uneasily alongside humans after a treaty that stripped them of their immortality in exchange for living out in the open. In that aftermath, Death Witches were hunted down and eradicated. All but one. Edith hides in plain sight as an investigator with the First Council, solving murders with her magic. She can see a victim’s last moments of life. It’s a convenient gift. An inconspicuous one. And it keeps her true power a secret. But when a witch’s death exposes the disappearance of five more, she is forced into a case that rips into her past. The trail leads to the Sparrows - a long-dormant order that wiped out every Death Witch in England - including Edith’s family. As the full moon draws near, more witches vanish. When a witch she has sworn to protect is abducted, she won’t stay hidden any longer. To stop them, Edith will have to unmask a magic she has spent decades burying. And once the Sparrows know that a Death Witch still lives, they will finish what they started.

Edith Ashton is the last of her kind. But the world thinks she’s dead. 1893 London. Witches live uneasily alongside humans after a treaty that stripped them of their immortality in exchange for living out in the open. In that aftermath, Death Witches were hunted down and eradicated. All but one. Edith hides in plain sight as an investigator with the First Council, solving murders with her magic. She can see a victim’s last moments of life. It’s a convenient gift. An inconspicuous one. And it keeps her true power a secret. But when a witch’s death exposes the disappearance of five more, she is forced into a case that rips into her past. The trail leads to the Sparrows - a long-dormant order that wiped out every Death Witch in England - including Edith’s family. As the full moon draws near, more witches vanish. When a witch she has sworn to protect is abducted, she won’t stay hidden any longer. To stop them, Edith will have to unmask a magic she has spent decades burying. And once the Sparrows know that a Death Witch still lives, they will finish what they started.

Edith Ashton is the last of her kind. But the world thinks she’s dead. 1893 London. Witches live uneasily alongside humans after a treaty that stripped them of their immortality in exchange for living out in the open. In that aftermath, Death Witches were hunted down and eradicated. All but one. Edith hides in plain sight as an investigator with the First Council, solving murders with her magic. She can see a victim’s last moments of life. It’s a convenient gift. An inconspicuous one. And it keeps her true power a secret. But when a witch’s death exposes the disappearance of five more, she is forced into a case that rips into her past. The trail leads to the Sparrows - a long-dormant order that wiped out every Death Witch in England - including Edith’s family. As the full moon draws near, more witches vanish. When a witch she has sworn to protect is abducted, she won’t stay hidden any longer. To stop them, Edith will have to unmask a magic she has spent decades burying. And once the Sparrows know that a Death Witch still lives, they will finish what they started.