In the year 2043, the Endigon virus killed over a million people in a single week. With a 100% mortality rate, it forced humanity into a new reality. And it was only the beginning.

Massachusetts, USA. Kara Brown’s wish for a normal teenage life has utterly faded. A sixteen-year-old shouldn’t be forced to don protective suits and specialized gas masks or live in fear of infecting the people closest to them. But it’s not like she had any choice in the matter. The Endigon virus affects everyone differently, but they all end up the same: dead, or worse. The only way to stay alive – is to stay away.

As far as Nora Eiling is concerned, life as part of the Endigon Virus Eradication League is all she cares about. Ambitious and intelligent, she was brought up by the League, climbing the ranks ever since she was a little girl until, finally, she was given authority over one of its experiments. But when a face from her past turns up as one of her test subjects, Nora is forced to make a difficult choice – to conform, or to rebel.

Dark secrets surface as the lives of Kara and Nora spiral toward an inevitable collision. Can the two find enough courage to survive in a world devastated by the outbreak? Or will they, too, be crushed by the plague of manmade evil?