When screenwriter Shelby Weiss gets the news that she hasbreast cancer, she thinks that life, as she knows it, is over. Littledoes she know, it is ... but not for the reason she believes.A massive storm rocks the United States, followed by anattack that wipes out all infrastructure. Shelby is one of the fewwomen to survive - and by the looks of it, the only woman leftwho is of childbearing age.The hunt is on; Shelby is the prey. Her choices now willshape not only her future, but the potential future of the nation.