Tucker is just your average ordinary teenage freshman. He plays football and doesn't mind sitting on the bench, until a player dies on the field. Shaken, Tucker and his best friend Quinn take a midnight bike ride and witness a strange music filled aircraft light up the night sky with a foreign weapon. Not long afterwards, when Tucker has to step up and actually play in a game, a man offers a substance called Ruby to help with his performance. When Tucker tests it, he realizes that it gives him supernatural strength and stamina. Believing that the football player who died had taken this substance before his death, Tucker yells at the man and walks away from the drug.

On the small island of Pemberwick everyone knows everyone and when people start dying, it effects the whole island. Especially when the island is declared quarantined by the government and is invaded by a special branch of the military called SYLO. People are cleared from the streets of the island and live in fear of the military leader who is there for their "protection". Tucker and his friends start connecting dots and realize that there is more going on in Pemberwick than meets the eye.

A thriller and page turner, SYLO kept me up and questioning. I look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy. Keep an eye on this one!