
And no one in his family is so informal as to call their mother “Ma.” Who is it who just spoke? Maybe one of his brothers.

His throat hurts, his tongue feels like chewed leather, his left wrist aches, and he can’t open his eyes. Mired in a numbing grey fog, Lev feels her cool fingers on his neck, taking his pulse. “Do it for him,” a woman says, her voice quiet but steeped in authority. An official announcement about the collection will be coming soon!”

I wanted to tell a story that was inspired by the fans - and a lot of fans wanted to know what happened to Lev between the time he left CyFi, and turned up at the airplane graveyard. “After turning in my first draft of UnWHOLLY, my editor, David Gale suggested that I write a story that would link Unwind and the second book - after all, it had been over three years since UNWIND had been published, and we wanted to whet readers’ appetites.
