In Book 1, Machine sickness changed life worldwide. No plastic and no petroleum meant no vehicles, pavement, or electronics. Climate change is accelerated by all the world’s CO2 released at once. Three stories of three survivors interweave in this shocking and expansive epic.
- Young Meala is stunned and enchanted when Hen Li, forced to man an oar in a doomed Africa-bound ship, washes up at feet when the ship wrecks. Will it cost him his life?
- Dr. D, still horrified at the results of her gene modification project, attacked by predatory bandits while traveling the changed landscape.
- The bombastic and incompetent President of the USA, cut off in a newly hostile world, fights for control of the primitive media that remains.
- The action continues non-stop in this stand-alone sequel.