A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the
award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.
In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin
is traveling with his teenage twin daughters when their car is ambushed.
Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they
transport Blake's family to an isolated compound. There, the three
captives discover that the compound's residents have a highly contagious
alien disease that has mutated their DNA to make them powerful,
dangerous, and compelled to infect others. If Blake and his daughters do
not escape, they will be infected with a virus that will either kill
them outright or transform them into outcasts whose very existence is a
threat to the world around them.
In the following hours, Blake and his daughters each must make a vital
choice: risk everything to escape and warn the rest of the world, or
accept their new reality -- as well as the uncertain fate of the human
race.