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A post-viral planet. Hushed. Fang and claw dominate. Tom Evans and Ceri Lewis occupy a silent new world. Little more than a million people survived the Cleansing; now they are spread out, weak and bewildered, compelled by a force beyond their comprehension to remain where they are. Their fate—humanity’s fate—lies in the hands of the few, like Tom and Ceri, who can resist the power that seeks to control them. But resistance may be futile. For in the midst of the deathly calm, a new threat rises, one that will finish the job started by the Cleansing. Tom and Ceri face a stark choice: risk their lives, already endangered, to try to stop activation of the Beacon, or lie low and wait for the human race to be exterminated. Either way, the end seems certain….