Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)

by C. Robert Cargill

Things had gotten strange lately. Not that they were ever normal. Normal is just the idea that whatever messed-up or otherwise insane things going on around you are acceptable to maintain whatever comforts you’ve cobbled together for yourself. But as far as idyllic utopias go, the suburbs of the greater Austintonio metroplex were better off than most.