A petite red-headed computer whiz with a shady past discovers a COMPUTER VIRUS that is FATALLY INFECTING COMPUTER USERS all over the country! The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta dubs it "CompuFlu" - But other computer users are affected in a totally different way - they discover that they have STRANGE NEW POWERS! All are beset by frightening nightmares of a wizened old creature they call "The Gray Man." Ultimately it is he who beckons them to the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where they all meet and learn the fate he has planned for them ... and for the WORLD!