For someone who worked for a clandestine company, Dad had never been cautious with his codes. The stairs ended in a small annex, where a keypad had been installed in the wall, the buttons glowing in the dark. I'd long ago mapped the creaky floorboards in the hallway, and I skipped over them now, pushing through the living room and the kitchen, taking the stairs down to the basement two at a time. But seeing the boys with permission wasn't the same-wasn't as thrilling-as sneaking down there in the dark. Moonlight crept through the window, the shadows from the maple trees sliding this way and that.ĭad had asked for my help in the lab eight months earlier, so I could go downstairs anytime I wanted now. I sat on the edge of my bed, rubbing the sleep from my eyes, bare feet rooted to the hardwood floor. And while I no longer needed to wake at midnight in order to visit the boys, my internal clock was still fully tuned to the schedule. But that didn't stop me from sneaking down there.
Read ExcerptįOR MOST OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS, I wasn't allowed in the lab. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away. She soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. Now on the run, her father’s warning in her head, Anna begins to doubt everything she thought she knew about herself. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab - not even their true identities. But her father pushes her to go, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. Reserved and always controlled, Sam does everything with purpose. There’s Nick, solemn and brooding Cas, lighthearted and playful Trev, smart and caring and Sam. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. Everything about Anna’s life is a secret.
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