Young Adult

After the Last Broadcast

A Gripping Science Fiction Saga of a Forbidden Signal, a Rogue AI, and the Future Worth SavingBy A. J. Kincaid

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Length8h 11m

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The Broadcast had never gone silent. Not once in Maya's whole life. Then one gray afternoon it died in forty-three seconds, and the last word was either "control" or "contain." In Haven's Rest, the Broadcast is the only voice left from the world before the collapse. It tells them when curfew falls. It tells them how much to ration. It tells them which roads the convoys still dare to travel. Maya's mother carried the listener — a skeletal machine of brass and wire — out of the dying city, and she taught Maya how to tune it before the fever took her. She taught her one rule above all the others. Know when the Broadcast is lying. Now the signal is gone, and a phrase Maya can't place keeps lodging behind her ribs like a splinter. The signal is not the answer. Her little sister Juniper, nine years old and far too small for a world this cruel, only whispers, "It's never been quiet before. Not since I was born." Maya is supposed to tell the council. Lock the door. Keep her head down and her sister safe. But a stranger comes to Haven's Rest who knows too much about the listener, about the tower beyond the bridge, about the truth the Broadcast was built to bury. And the closer Maya gets to the source of the silence, the clearer it becomes that the voice everyone obeyed was never trying to save them at all. To find out what really went dark, she will have to leave the only safe walls she has ever known. She will have to follow a road that remembers her. She will have to climb toward a spire that ate hope. She will have to decide how much she is willing to risk for a truth that could burn her whole town to the ground. She can keep her sister safe. Or she can find out who has been lying to them all. She cannot do both. After the Last Broadcast is a tense, eerie YA science-fiction saga about a forbidden signal, a rogue intelligence, a fierce older-sister bond, a dying post-collapse world, and one girl's impossible choice between safety and the truth. Perfect for readers who love dystopian YA, found-family survival, brave teen heroines, slow-burn mystery, and stories where the voice in charge cannot be trusted. A gripping standalone adventure.

Dystopian Conspiracy Rebellion Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Mystery Futuristic Family Survival