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I have a confession I was supposed to write a review on the tour for this book, but life has gotten in the way and I haven’t managed to finish reading it yet.

After really enjoying the first book in the series, Hive, I have been excited to get to read the second book but I know that this isn’t a book that I can rush. I want to savour every moment, but I also know that the scientific element will be too hard for me to follow if I try to speed up my reading.

So for now I’ll share the details of the book and hopefully I’ll be sharing my thoughts about the book with you soon.


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D L Orton

The multiverse is collapsing. The time machine is broken. And humanityโ€™s last hope? Might already be dead.

Seven months after the EMPs brought the world to its knees, a handful of scientists are racing against extinctionโ€”and each other. Somewhere in a flooded skyscraper lies a wormhole generator that might be able to undo the apocalypse. If they can find it. If it still works. If it doesnโ€™t kill them first.

Meanwhile, Diego Nadales wakes in a cell, his face bloodied and his memories fractured. He’s being accused of terrorism, treason, and time travel. The last one, at least, is true.

Isabel is trapped inside a biodome ruled by the man she once trusted. But her beesโ€”microscopic drones designed to save the planetโ€”have been hijacked and weaponized. If she doesnโ€™t find a way out soon, her creation will wipe out the last threads of life on Earth.

Old friends return. New enemies rise. And somewhere in the chaos, one small spark of hope just might be enough to ignite a revolution.

The clock isnโ€™t ticking. Itโ€™s blowing up.

Genre: Science Fiction
Age Category: Adult
Number of Pages: 406 Pages
Publication Date: November 4, 2025

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The BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, D. L. ORTON, lives in the foothills of Colorado where she and her husband are raising three boys, a golden retriever, two Siberian cats, and an extremely long-lived Triops. Her future plans include completing the books in the BETWEEN TWO EVILS series followed by an extended vacation on a remote tropical island (with a Starbucks).

When sheโ€™s not writing, playing tennis, or helping with algebra, sheโ€™s building a time machine so that someone can go back and do the laundry.

Ms. Orton is a graduate of Stanford Universityโ€™s Writers Workshop and a past editor of โ€œTop of the Western Staircase,โ€ a literary publication of CU, Boulder. The author has a number of short stories published in online literary magazines, including Literotica.com, Melusine, Cosmoetica, The Ranfurly Review, and Catalyst Press.

Her debut novel, CROSSING IN TIME, has won numerous literary awards including an Indie Book Award and a Publishers Weekly Starred Review. It was also selected as one of only 12 Great Indie Stars by BookLifeโ€™s Prize in Fiction.

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