Gideon the Ninth meets Annihilation when an LGBTQ+ Youth Center battles a fundamentalist Doomsday cult in a post-apocalyptic world.

Seventeen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult who raised him—the fundamentalist group that unleashed Armageddon and destroyed half of the world’s population. Cornered by the monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from a local LGBTQ+ Youth Center who’ve banded together to make their way in this dangerous new world. But the group’s leader, Nick, knows Benji’s darkest secret: before Benji fled, the cult injected him with bioweapon, designed to mutate him into a monster deadly enough to will eliminate the remaining survivors.

Debut author Andrew Joseph White delivers with an action-packed, thought-provoking story about not just embracing the monster within, but unleashing the monster against your oppressors.