One in Eight Hundred

Michael Brannan will not hand his daughter over to soldiers. Eighteen months after a forty-second pulse crossed the planet, one child in eight hundred no longer sleeps, no longer dreams, and can hear the others thinking. Nineteen of them shelter inside the dam settlement Michael built in the Appalachian foothills. A colonel eighty miles away wants them all. And an immunologist's research suggests the children are not only receiving a signal—they are answering one.