Book excerpt: After the fall, the real fight begins. For life, for home, for freedom. Rylan Scott was a petroleum engineer with a young family. He had a successful wife and two curious boys. But then Kaiju Goliad made landfall near his Clear Lake home. The beast rampaged through the area before it was finally killed, his gargantuan body falling in Rylan's neighborhood. The problems should have ended with the kaiju's death, but they were just beginning. This is the story of what happens to a city after the kaiju is killed. What happens to the body? Where does the skeleton go? How do you piece back your life after such a cataclysmic event? And then there is the problem of another kaiju in the Gulf. This one is a kui kaiju, a scavenger, and it is headed to Houston...