Publisher's Synopsis
Some things you can't take back.
All Steve wanted was to tell the girl of his dreams how he felt.
Today was that day. A day engineered with no distractions. A day for just the two of them. No roommates. No cowardice. No second-guessing that the friendship they'd built over the last year wasn't more. Today was the day his hellish existence would move into the light.
Snatched away by four simple words, Steve's day turns on him. It shouldn't be possible for everything to change so fast. That from one second to the next, he could go from steering his future to watching it crash down around him. The experimental protocol he and his best-friend Ray worked on had bled into his real life. They'd promised each other that despite all the horrid things they endured, despite all the awful things they forced onto others, they would not bring their messed-up lives home.
With the last of their subjects dead, they were out of options.
Each day more torturous than the last, Steve watches his love while she rests in an induced coma, no longer content in his ignorance of the protocol he'd used on so many. Always secret, Steve's cowardice haunts him as he's forced to inflict the unknown on the person who's become his heart.
When she wakes, when she finally comes to, the first to survive, Steve wants to take it all back. The nightmare he'd been living was nothing compared to this.
Ten-Zero-Nine can be read as a stand-alone story, or at any time when reading The Fool's Path Series. Its suggested place is between Crashing Down and Cathing Balance, Books three and four of The Fool's Path Series.
