The Sister
and the Umbrella

Set in 2072, The Sister and the Umbrella follows Evan Banks, an English immigrant who signed onto the States' notorious Martyrs List in exchange for citizenship and benefits. Knowing he may be sent on the military’s most dangerous missions (with a 25% chance of returning home), he is resigned to his fate—until he meets Vick Lancer, a woman plagued with the Sister and mere months to live, who changes his life in even less time. Maneuvering around her terminal diagnosis and the carnage of a war-torn eastern coast, Evan finds himself longing for connection and a cure, instead uncovering a conspiracy overseas that threatens not just the lives of his fellow martyrs, but Vick’s and his own. Can he unravel the mystery of the Sister in time to save Vick and himself?