2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarterfinalist DOROBO: Dark Days Something’s in the air—but it’s not oxygen. There is no sun. The environment is toxic. Every survivor is an empty soul willing to kill for one more breath of clean air. There are no morals, no laws, no last names. Nitra’s the last alive in her family. At sixteen, she’s more miserable than most teenagers. If it weren’t for Thane, the twenty-five year old ex-cop who forced her to survive the icy apocalypse, and his little brother Lium, she’d never find the will to live. To supply their mismatched family with oxygen, Nitra and Thane become a recon team for an O2 thief ring: the Dorobo. The all-but brother-sister duo is sent on a typical acquisition; however, they find themselves caught in the crosshairs of a rival gang. In the pandemonium, they learn news that will change everything. Nitra and Thane volunteer to take on a new and perilous mission where they must battle in unfamiliar territory to survive. When circumstances turn even deadlier than usual, which is saying a lot, the pair is involuntarily separated. One is forced to collaborate with dangerous foes while the other must trudge alone in a final attempt to unearth humankind’s salvation. Through alternating perspectives we experience the unique journey of two tough survivors at their most vulnerable. Is Nitra’s captor that bad of a guy, or are her questions of his intentions the result of raging hormones and Stockholm syndrome? Has Thane really found someone willing to help him search, or is the curiously familiar old man just another self-serving zombie ready to kill for one more breath?