Since mankind began, civilizations have always fallen: the Romans, the
Greeks, the Aztecs... Now it’s our turn. Huge earthquakes rock the world.
Cities are destroyed. But something even more awful is happening. An
ancient evil has been unleashed, turning everday people into hunters,
killers, crazies.
Mason's mother is dying after a terrible car
accident. As he endures a last vigil at her hospital bed, his school is
bombed and razed to the ground, and everyone he knows is killed. Aries
survives an earthquake aftershock on a bus, and thinks the worst is over when a mysterious stranger pulls her out of the wreckage, but she’s
about to discover a world changed forever. Clementine, the only survivor of an emergency town hall meeting that descends into murderous chaos,
is on the run from savage strangers who used to be her friends and
neighbors. And Michael witnesses a brutal road rage incident that is
made much worse by the arrival of the police – who gun down the guilty
party and then turn on the bystanding crowd.
Where do you go for
justice when even the lawmakers have turned bad? These four teens are on the same road in a world gone mad. Struggling to survive, clinging on
to love and meaning wherever it can be found, this is a journey into the heart of darkness – but also a journey to find each other and a place
of safety.
