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A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times from the awardwinning 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 Blakes family to an isolated compound There the three captives discover that the compounds 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