When everyone you know is dying, how do you go on living? When the world collapses, how do you rebuild it? When you are little more than a child yourself, how do you rule the remnants of such a world? All Eve wanted out of life was to graduate college, marry her high school boyfriend, and write for World Weekly News, but when a sickness is set upon the world, she finds herself caring for a slowly growing group of survivors. Can she save herself and them from starvation, from insanity, from each other? Can her group survive a plague-ridden world, while learning to fight against those who have let the loneliness, the isolation, the emptiness destroy who they once were. She doesn't think so, but she's determined to try.