It has been nine months since the virus hit, wiping out almost everyone it touched. Seventeen-year-old Cora and her little brother, Coby, haven't left home since.
When a blistering drought forces her to go in search of water, she discovers that the world isn't quite as abandoned as she thought when a drop-dead sexy army deserter ambushes her, and forces her to take him home to her stockpile of supplies. There she finds her home decimated, and her brother missing, kidnapped by the military.
If saving her brother from the government means a suicide mission, Cora's willing. But there's one guy who can't let her go...