First comes the red rain: a strange, scarlet downpour from a cloudless
sky that spreads across cities, nations, and the entire globe. In a
matter of panicked hours, every living thing on earth succumbs to swift,
bloody death. Yet Emily Baxter, a young newspaper reporter, is
mysteriously spared--and now she's all alone.
But watching the happy life she built for herself in New York City slip
away in the wake of a monstrous, inexplicable plague is just the
beginning of Emily's waking nightmare. The world isn't ending; it's only
changing. And the race that once ruled the earth has now become raw
material for use by a new form of life never before seen...on this
planet.
With only wits, weapons, and a bicycle, Emily must undertake a grueling
journey across a country that's turning increasingly alien. For though
she fears she's been left to inherit the earth, the truth is far more
terrifying than a lifetime of solitude.