The Failing Sky

The sun is expanding. The surface is finished. What is left of humanity lives a kilometre inside the Andes, in a sealed city called the Hub.Down there, your sector is your life. Sector 1 gets gardens, clean air and light on a daylight cycle. Sector 12 gets the dark and whatever comes down the pipe. Director Vane decides who goes where, and nobody moves up.Leo Valda dug this place. Three years of granite, a lungful of dust that will kill him, and a lottery ticket that was never going to be drawn. He is not supposed to be alive inside the shelter he built.Now the reactor that lights the Hub is failing. The rock around it is moving. And a scavenger has come back from a shaft that should have ended in solid stone, carrying something that pulls the heat out of the air.The surveys say there is nothing below Sector 12.What do you do when the only world left is running out? And what do you do when you find out it was never yours to begin with?Their world is already buried. Something down there was buried first. The Failing Sky, the first book of The Last Days Upon Earth. Maps and images at robarden.com