Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town leaving its victims alive but without their memories. Choosing to remain in the quarantined zone he cares for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully now transformed by the virus into his best friend. But then a strong-willed and mysterious young woman appears and the closed-off world Cardinal has created begins to crumble.
A thrilling fast-paced work of speculative fiction for teens from a bestselling author Black River Falls is an unforgettable story about survival identity and family.