Humanity will be extinguished in under seven days. Jude and Hamid, the starfighter pilots who saved the world from alien invasion, are trapped in a cycle of media events, PTSD, and alcoholism. Jude wants to fall pregnant before the world ends. Hamid just wants to stop the creepy messages from his dead ex-husband. But does what you want matter when the sky is falling in?
Elianor Paine is a Magistrate of the Peace in the Kingdom of Trist and a republican secret agent. She has 6 days to subvert her investigation, supplant war-hero Lord Vile, then coerce his adult children to start a revolution, before her masters discover the truth and have her killed. Just how far is she willing to go? And can she change the world without changing herself?