Publisher's Synopsis
It's 2092. Global warming has ravaged the world, changing it forever. Researcher Alex Smith wakes one morning to a horrible discovery. Her husband and dog are dead. A mystery substance had passed over the earth, killing everything with a heartbeat. Alex had a rare cancer vaccination and strangely survived because of it. Few people did. Her mother also had the shot, but Alex can't reach her. All communication is down. She's lost everyone and has to find her, dead or alive. The only transportation choice is her solar motorcycle. She has to ride 2,800 miles across the country to Vancouver Island and find a way to cross the wide strait to get to Victoria. Alex is terrified of the ocean. She'll be a mark. She has survival food, most don't. Starving people will kill for food. She needs to make herself almost invisible while she rides and camps. Her research for good camouflage for the trip takes her into a vast underground world. She just wanted to travel safely. They need her blood to replicate the vaccine and her help eliminating a threat to their future survival. Invisibility has a price. Becoming an assassin may be one of them.
Just across town, thirteen-year-old Jacob and his parents were not living a comfortable life. There was little work or hope for the unskilled. Their lives were sustained by the government, but bleak. Now everyone Jacob knew and loved is dead. He has to grow up fast and find a way out of this.
Both Alex and Jacob begin to start over in this new, treacherous world. Too many life and death decisions await them both. They are never the same again and each of them has a killer on their tail. No rest for the innocent.
